A recent study suggests that our ability to construct sentences may arise from procedural memory—the same simple memory system ... system is at work when we form sentences, Ferreira and his ...

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist Recently, one such simple sentence revealed its extraordinary glory. A sentence we’ve all heard in some shape or form. A saying easy to dismiss as a feel-good cliche.

‘He walked quickly back to the house.’ Simple sentences are important for making clear points. Be careful though - if you only ever use simple sentences in your writing you don’t add much ...