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Rewrite Fragments

Almost as easy and twice as impressive as connecting fragments, is the ability to rewrite a fragment as a complete sentence. Lucidity is enhanced by the rearrangement--the reader gets a clearer picture--and this can help you manipulate emphasis as well. Check it out:

Recently Daniel Boone visited me in a dream. Actually, it had begun with the triumphant arrival of Davy Crockett and Natty Bumpo on a pair of Galapagos tortoises. Daniel Boone arrived late. We'd run out of punch.

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