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A period may be composed of clauses, or simple.
The former is a complete sentence, distinct in its parts and easy to repeat in a
breath, not divided like the period in the line of Sophocles above, but when it
is taken as a whole.1 By clause I mean one of
the two parts of this period, and by a simple period one that consists of only
one clause.
1 It does not consist in simply dividing off any words from the context as the speaker pleases, but the parts of the sentence as a whole are properly constructed and distinguished and the sense also is complete.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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