Grammatically, though, he's indicated (
by the paragraph break) that it shouldn't be — but a lot of none - too - bright native English speakers have no idea how a paragraph is supposed to work.
Not exact matches
Think about the subject line, think about how to formally acknowledge the person,
break the copy into
paragraphs, avoid shouting
by using capitals, make sure that your email is clear especially with what steps need to be taken from here for the customer if they would like to proceed.
I would be glad if you could consider the substance of this lecture a kind of commentary on the first
paragraph of your own «Call to Covenant Community,» which reads: «We affirm faith in Jesus Christ who proclaimed the reign of God
by preaching good news to the poor, binding up the
broken - hearted and calling all to repent and believe the good news.
Break up text with bulleted lists — avoid dense
paragraphs, which are easily skimmed over
by tired eyes.
Once ELITESINGLES has begun to provide the services, either party may terminate the contract with immediate effect
by giving written notice to the other party (in the manner specified in
paragraph 3 above where the customer is the terminating party) if the contract is
broken in a material way and the offending party does not fix or correct the situation within 14 days of the innocent party asking the offending party to fix or correct the situation in writing.
A handy lesson looking at how
paragraph breaks can be used
by writers for dramatic effect.
By using an idea web, this also helps my students to
break their stories into
paragraphs.
You can do this either
by simply highlighting your
break and remove the first line indent in your
paragraph format dialog box or you can set a new style for it that includes no first line indent.
A more simple option may be to simply
break up
paragraphs if it's logical (for example, a line of dialogue
broken off from a chunk of prose), or combine them (if dialogue is spoken
by a character in direct relation to the chunk of prose).
Nonfiction authors may opt for no indentation so long as
paragraphs are separated
by a full
paragraph break.
Microsoft Word's default Normal style in older versions of Word is set to not add space between
paragraphs by default so authors learned to add them in manually with extra
paragraph breaks instead of modifying the style settings.
Often this is done
by simply inserting a few extra
paragraph breaks before the new scene.
To create a chapter
break, insert a consistent number of
paragraph returns (three or four); or, use a combination of a two
paragraph returns, followed
by centered text characters such as «~ ~ ~ ~» or «* * * *», followed
by a two more
paragraph returns and a chapter heading.
We use a program that actually checks for a laundry list of potential issues not noticed
by authors and editors including punctuation errors (space before a comma), «
broken»
paragraphs (caused
by accidentally hitting enter in between a
paragraph on the manuscript), and even chapters that are numbered incorrectly (e.g. Chapter 6 and then Chapter 8).
Format your work
by breaking it down into catchy
paragraphs underlining and highlighting whatever needs to be highlighted.
** Page layout: Reflowable text is a flexible layout that scales to fit different screen and font sizes
by changing page
breaks and
paragraph widths.
If a few
paragraphs or a page or two have gone
by with very few corrections, that means one of two things: I am tired and need to take a
break (which I do, coming back to reread those pages afterwards) or those sections didn't need corrections.
I'm reading my book in the HTML Reader and on the iPhone and I have many blank pages The second most common formatting error made
by authors is when they use many successive
paragraph returns (made
by repeatedly hitting the «Enter» key on their keyboard) to designate page
breaks, or to separate blocks of text.
The standard ebooks right now are «reflowable,» meaning that the pages scale to fit different screen and font sizes
by changing page
breaks and
paragraph widths.
By the way, good way to download and format Unicode text files so that
paragraph breaks would display properly and lines will not needlessly wrap is eBook Text Formatter tool that I've created a while ago.
There are not walls of intimidating text, there are info graphics
broken up
by small
paragraphs of text allow you to read and understand easily.
The following websites did a great job at
breaking up big blocks of text
by using great visual cues, including sub-headers, short
paragraphs, lists, bold text, and hyperlinks:
Run a layout test
by breaking up the content into smaller
paragraphs, use bullet lists or
break it up with images in between sections, so that your post seems more approachable and easier to consume.
The text of your cover letter should be separated
by clear
paragraph breaks.
Choose a font size no smaller than 10 point and
break the text up
by using bullets and spaces rather than big blocky
paragraphs.
You can do this
by breaking the text into smaller
paragraphs and listing your work experience in bullet points.
The Headline reads: «Competition tribunal's ruling a blow for home sales
by owners» and one
paragraph reads: «The ruling is a setback for Ottawa's competition watchdog, which has been pushing hard to
break the real estate industry's control over the housing market.»