Single sentence¶

single_sentence · syntax · validated

A work consisting of exactly one sentence, however long, with no full stop until the end.

Provenance¶

Source: Traditional; the form of Gertrude Stein's and Thomas Bernhard's long prose
Attribution: traditional — classical or folk; no single origin to name
Checkability: self — decidable from the text and its parameters alone
Attested: codified — formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author

Write the whole piece as one unbroken sentence.

en — this text satisfies the procedure.

One long clause running on and on until at last it ends.

Source: constructed example; the form of Bernhard's and Stein's long prose

en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.

One clause. Then another.

Source: constructed counterexample