TODAY’S SIMPLER SENTENCES.

TODAY’S SIMPLER SENTENCES. You don’t see complex sentences like Johnson’s very often these days. But you also don’t see a lot of writing which balances arguments. Both of our children had a wonderful teacher in high school who told his students that a good way to begin an essay question was to use a compound sentence of the form: “Although there are these arguments on the other side [set forth the strongest arguments], the following arguments outweigh them.” I fear that this kind of weighing of issues is disappearing and will some day seem as unusual as Johnson’s sentences now seem to us.