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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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hi
i want to know if the following sentence reads fine:
"This restriction in islamic art, by eliminating certain creative possibilities, intensified others, the more so since it was accompanied by the express permission to represent plants; hence, the capital importance of arabesques, of geometrical and botanical decorative motifs."
i want to know if the following sentence reads fine:
"This restriction in islamic art, by eliminating certain creative possibilities, intensified others, the more so since it was accompanied by the express permission to represent plants; hence, the capital importance of arabesques, of geometrical and botanical decorative motifs."
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**This restriction in islamic art : eliminating certain creative possibilities, enhancing others, is felt more strongly recently, because it has been accompanied by the official permission to depict plant patterns. As a result, the capital importance of arabesques, geometrical, and botanical decorative motifs appreciates . "?
- **This restriction in islamic art : eliminating certain creative possibilities, enhancing others, is felt more strongly recently, because it has been accompanied by the official permission to depict plant patterns.
- As a result, the capital importance of arabesques, geometrical, and botanical decorative motifs appreciates .
- "?
- ** Is it This because you have already made reference?
- Otherwise it should be the .
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**This restriction in islamic art: eliminating certain creative possibilities, enhancing others, is felt more strongly recently, because it has been accompanied by the official permission to depict plant patterns. As a result, the capital importance of arabesques, geometrical, and botanical decorative motifs a
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Hi,
"This restriction in Islamic art, by eliminating certain creative possibilities, intensified others, the more so since it was accompanied by the express permission to represent plants; hence, the capital importance of arabesques, of geometrical and botanical decorative motifs."
This seems like a good sentence to me.
"This restriction in Islamic art, by eliminating certain creative possibilities, intensified others, the more so since it was accompanied by the express permission to represent plants; hence, the capital importance of arabesques, of geometrical and botanical decorative motifs."
This seems like a good sentence to me.
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CliveHi,
"This restriction in Islamic art, by eliminating certain creative possibilities, intensified others, the more so since it was accompanied by the express permission to represent plants; hence, the capital importance of arabesques, of geometrical and botanical decorative motifs."
This s
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"This restriction in Islamic art, by eliminating certain creative possibilities, intensified others, the more so since it was accompanied by the express permission to represent plants; hence, the capital importance of arabesques, of geometrical and botanical decorative motifs."
With 'hence', the main verb is often omitted for r
With 'hence', the main verb is often omitted for r
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Hi,
Do we need the comma after hence?(!) I wouldn't say you always need it, but I like its use here. It gives the reader a moment to 'prepare to understand the connection that is coming'.
. . . the semi colon is ill-used. Some people would argue that semi-colons are usually ill-used! Yet, I find myself quite liking
Do we need the comma after hence?(!) I wouldn't say you always need it, but I like its use here. It gives the reader a moment to 'prepare to understand the connection that is coming'.
. . . the semi colon is ill-used. Some people would argue that semi-colons are usually ill-used! Yet, I find myself quite liking
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Clive Some people would argue that semi-colons are usually ill-used! Yet, I find myself quite liking its use hereClive! I shall alert the media
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Hi,
I just got through reading her next work, 'Talk To The Hand'. It's about the decline of good manners in our time.
Clive
I just got through reading her next work, 'Talk To The Hand'. It's about the decline of good manners in our time.
Clive
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CliveHi,
I just got through reading her next work, 'Talk To The Hand'. It's about the decline of good manners in our time.
Clive
I did not say the semi-colon is ill-used, but that I did not agree with a clause dangling without a verb.
"[ N ]ext work ... decline of good manners in our time"; it must be a tome.
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