Chapter V, on the Whole Composition, serves as a review and summary of the methods of paragraph development, shows how to make the transition from one paragraph to another, and discusses the more important rhetorical principles underlying the union of paragraphs into a coherent and unified whole.

The sensational paragraph writers had better "let up" on the question of an imminent dearth of ice.

This paragraph states, that the numbers of free persons shall be determined, by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.

Have your paragraphs unity of thought?) +57.

[Symbol: Paragraph mark to indicate beginning of story.]

What is meant by "Memory flows with lava tide?" Write a two-paragraph description of an old arm-chair.

If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader's "character set" or "file encoding".

There are some special uses of indentation in letter writing, printed conversation, and other forms, but for ordinary paragraph division the indentation is determined by the thought, and its correct use depends upon clear thinking.

" The wounded sensitiveness, however, which the foregoing paragraph exhibits, found some consolation from an article which appeared in The Times.

" At first we thought Mr. Laing must have meant differences and not discrepancies; but the following paragraph forbade so lenient an interpretation.

" The above paragraph forms part of the notice with which the late Dr. Birch, the eminent antiquarian, formerly at the head of this department of the British Museum, has prefaced a catalogue of the antiquities alluded to.

Reasons for Studying Paragraph Structure.+A knowledge of the way in which a paragraph is constructed will aid us in determining the thought it contains.

Also, there was the question of getting variety into his paragraph lengths.

Here in murky closet, inadequate from its square contents to the receipt of the two bodies of Editor, and humble paragraph-maker, together at one time, sat in the discharge of his new Editorial functions (the "Bigod" of Elia) the redoubted John Fenwick.

As she spoke, I pulled myself together, and, scanning the paper hastily, was fortunate enough to find in the first paragraph matter requiring comment.

It is sweet, doubtless, to be one of those same mushroom-men, sweet to be placarded as 'the new' this or that, to step for a day into the triumphal car of newspaper renown, drawn by teams of willing paragraph-menwho, does it never strike you?

This gentleman, so surprisingly met upon Snow Hill, from some peculiarities in gait or gesture, was a constant butt for mirth to the small paragraph-mongers of the day; and our friend thought that he might have his fling at him with the rest.

You will notice in chapter one that at the close of nearly every paragraph questions are thrown in.

The work is a paragraph by paragraph refutation from the authority of scripture of the Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity (1712) by the metaphysical Dr. Samuel Clarke, whose unorthodox views prevented Queen Caroline from making him Archbishop of Canterbury.

"For the purpose of ascertaining officially and authoritatively the condition of affairs to which the correspondence referred to in the next preceding paragraph relates, the Honorable the President of the Privy Council, during the spring of 1894, despatched Inspector Charles Constantine, of the Northwest Mounted Police Force, accompanied by Sergeant Brown, to Fort Cudahy and the mining camps in its vicinity.

I have before me a newspaper report of a speech by Mr. Bernard Shaw, of which one complete and separate paragraph runs like this "Capital meant spare money over and above one's needs.

These groups form natural paragraph units, and the placing of them in their actual time-order gives coherence to the composition.

He never for an instant, as the paragraph witnesses, wavered or doubted about the position of the English Church.

To all appearances, he was buried in his newspaper, occasionally reading a paragraph aloud to his mother.

Our replies varied according to the civility of our natures, but the mere attempt to raise the question shows, I think, how widespread among the editorial, paragraph-writing, opinion-making sort of people is this notion of prescribing a definite length and a definite form for the novel.