<div dir="ltr">I realize this thread played out some time ago. But Dürrenmatt's "Der Auftrag" with its 24 sentences in 133 pages certainly benefits from the way German sentences may be constructed, in conventional grammatical form, in a manner English would consider "comma splices." In other words, a full clause may end, another clause may begin, a comma separates those two, the narrative continues apace, the woman travels to an unnamed Arabic-speaking country, she solves a murder case, the woman encounters deep philosophical issues, one can see that in this way it is quite easy indeed to construct long sentences, we should remember that there is a difference between "grammatical" and what is considered "correct," it is late, I am going to bed.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Cyril Belica <<a href="mailto:belica@ids-mannheim.de">belica@ids-mannheim.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Do any of those 24 sentences take advantage of the potential<br>
> of German syntax to postpone any verb more than one page later<br>
> than the subject?<br>
><br>
> John Sowa<br>
<br>
</div>I don't think so though I've never checked that out. But sure enough, it is<br>
a syntax-heavy diet of reading.<br>
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Best,<br>
<font color="#888888">Cyril<br>
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