Sentence examples for unconventional punctuation from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Frey is back, with "Bright Shiny Morning," a book that is openly fictitious this time, and full of run-on sentences, unconventional punctuation and an occasional urban fact thrown in for good measure.

But she is world-famous today for an oblique, vivid style whose interiority and unconventional punctuation anticipated the modernist poetry of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, and others.

Cummings, in full Edward Estlin Cummings (born October 14, 1894, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. died September 3, 1962, North Conway, New Hampshire) American poet and painter who first attracted attention, in an age of literary experimentation, for his unconventional punctuation and phrasing.

Mr. Saramago, whose sense of literary freedom is evident in his unconventional punctuation and conflicting use of tenses, sought a different form of freedom in "The Stone Raft," where he imagines the confusion unleashed when the Iberian peninsula suddenly breaks free from the rest of Europe, drifts toward the New World and threatens to collide with the Azores.

Unique for the era, they contain short lines, lack titles and use unconventional punctuation and capitalization.

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Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.

Cummings and Ntozake Shange are known for their unconventional writing style; in particular, both writers use (or do not use) capitalization and punctuation in ways that grammar textbooks would deem incorrect.

Meanwhile social media texts are markedly different from medical literature, and thereby the processing of social media texts poses additional challenges such as the management of metadata associated to the text (such as tags in tweets) [ 18], the detection of typos and unconventional spelling, word shortenings [ 19, 20], slang and emoticons [ 21] and lack of punctuation marks, among others.

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