{"id":5418,"date":"2022-03-27T08:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2022-03-27T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:55:07","slug":"a-paragraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underthetablebooks.com\/blog\/archives\/5418","title":{"rendered":"A Paragraph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Paragraphs, as I\u2019m sure you know, are collections of sentences usually related to each other. If a paragraph is the first one in a story or essay, it introduces what will follow. If a paragraph is the last paragraph in a story or essay, it will conclude the collection of paragraphs composing the story or article. Any other paragraph in the story or article springs from the preceding paragraph and leads to the paragraph that follows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A paragraph, as you know, is a series of sentences describing something. If the paragraph is the first in an essay or story, it will act as the introduction to all that follows. If the paragraph is the last paragraph of the piece, it will end the story or essay. However, if the story is a chapter in a longer work, the last paragraph of the chapter may (or may not) hint at what is to follow. Any other paragraph in the story or essay is usually influenced by the preceding paragraph and usually suggests what the subsequent paragraph will be concerned with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You almost surely know what a paragraph is: a sequence of sentences arranged to describe something to the reader. The paragraph might describe what a person looks like. Or it might describe a particular action, someone making coffee or jumping out a window. If the paragraph is the first one in a story or an essay, it will act as an intro, though not necessarily as an introduction<\/em> to whatever follows. If the paragraph is the last one in the collection of paragraphs composing the piece, it will be an ending even if whatever is happening in the piece doesn\u2019t necessarily end. If the paragraph is not the first or the last, it will be sandwiched between two other paragraphs, rubbing shoulders with them, as it were, and feeling connected to them if only by proximity, but also maybe by a continuum of content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let us begin by assuming you are aware, at least in a general way, of what a paragraph is, and my saying a paragraph is a sequence of sentences describing something to the reader is perhaps annoyingly obvious, though I have no intention of annoying you. I\u2019m merely rewriting the previous paragraph in an attempt to\u2026 what? Demonstrate the process of rewriting? Maybe. We\u2019re not sure. In any case, assuming you know what a paragraph is, you don\u2019t need me to tell you that the first paragraph in a story kicks off the show, so to speak, and the last paragraph closes the act, in a manner of speaking, and the paragraphs in between the first and last paragraphs are the body of the story, the first paragraph the head, the last paragraph the tail. And I do hope you\u2019ll forgive me for mixing my metaphors or similes or whatever they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You know what a paragraph is. Right?\nA collection of sentences, or one long sentence with lots of dependent clauses,\na mass of words describing something that doesn\u2019t want to be broken into two or\nmore paragraphs, but wants to be one unit of (meaningful?) words describing a\nparticular something. And you also surely know the first paragraph in a story\nis like the opening act, the comedian who comes on to loosen up the crowd for\nthe main act to follow, and it, the paragraph, should be enticing and\nintriguing, so the readers will want to read the next<\/em> paragraph, and the next and the next until they, the readers,\ncome to the end of the collection of paragraphs composing the story, for which the\nfinal paragraph is the last hurrah of the ensemble of paragraphs. Or maybe not\nthe last hurrah. Not if the story turns out to be a chapter in a longer work, a\nnovel or a memoir, in which case the first story or chapter is the opening act\nof a longer work composed of multiple chapters, each chapter composed of\nparagraphs, each paragraph containing sentences, and each sentence made of\nwords. In that case, the first story (or chapter) is some sort of harbinger\n(comedian or seer?) of what is to come in the subsequent story chapters, and\nthe first paragraph of the first chapter is the comedian\u2019s opening joke or the\nseer\u2019s opening prophecy. For instance: So a guy goes to see a psychiatrist or\nBeware the Ides of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Real Good Joe <\/em>song by Todd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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