SENTENCE LENGTH

Writers usually exert many efforts in writing sentences with the proper length. Some of them stick to short sentences, which can make their writing looks choppy. Others like to write with long sentences, which can make the writing seems long-winded or wordy, even if it is not. In English language, the length of a sentence refers to how many words are there in that sentence. In almost all formulas, this number is used to estimate how much the sentence is difficult. Still, sometimes, a short sentence shows more difficulty to be read than a long one. Sometimes, longer sentences lead to facilitate comprehension, especially those that contain coordinate structures. This study discusses the basic grammatical notion of sentence, and its length from different points of view. Innumerable definitions of sentence exist and some of these are presented here to get a workable definition to this key term. A definition of sentence length is also presented. Different  treatments  of  the  so called  sentence  length  are  to  be  discussed . The various  techniques , that  have  been  devised to  deal  with  the  sentence  in  different  types  of  texts  as  to  get  better  writings,  are  accounted  for  in  this  study . These  points  are  discussed  to  reach  the  end , i.e. the conclusion  of  good  sentence  length .