What's the difference between short sentences and long sentences?

The combination of short sentences and long sentences makes the whole sentence patchwork, changeable and catchy to read.

The function of short sentences is to reward the feelings of the article and enhance the sentence potential. A large number of short sentences are used in the article to form a reciprocating momentum.

A short sentence is a sentence with simple structure and few words. The structure is subject+predicate+object. Long sentences are sentences with complex structure and many words, that is, short sentences plus adjectives.

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The use of long sentences and short sentences

The structural characteristics of long sentences and short sentences are different, and the use effect is also different.

Long sentences are rich in meaning, rigorous and thorough, and full of momentum; Short sentences are flexible, concise, vivid and natural, and often appear in spoken English. Many times long sentences and short sentences are used together. Some long sentences are boring and unnecessary, so they can be changed into lively short sentences.

For example, in the women's delegation, I saw Li Xiuzhen, the great mother of China people from the countryside, who persisted in the struggle for thirteen years, contributed her beloved only son to the war of liberation, and experienced numerous wars and prison tests. (Liu, Victory Day in Beijing)

In the ranks of women, I saw a great mother from the countryside. She persisted in the struggle for thirteen years and contributed her beloved only son to the war of liberation. She herself went through countless wars and prison tests for the revolution.

There are several attributes before "mother" in the original sentence, which makes the sentence very long. Changing the sentence breaks the long attribute into several clauses, which is vivid and smooth.

The reasons why sentences are too long are: too many modifiers, too many joint elements, too complicated structure of a certain element and too many levels of clause structure. Sentences are too long, difficult to read and often problematic to use. To shorten long sentences, we can take out modifiers to form sentences independently, and take out joint components to change them into joint complex sentences.