His accent swerves, within a sentence, from Californian to Irish to Scandinavian.
And what one especially prizes is this ability to turn on his heel, change everything within a sentence or a well-placed word.
While adverbs like "faithfully" are usually movable within a sentence, clarity is best served when they are placed as close as possible to what they modify.
Thus (great word, "thus," makes the conclusion seem inevitable), it is permissible to mix verb tenses within a sentence — but never inconsistently.
The poet and critic John Lucas points to the musicality of Stevenson's work: "Her cadences are almost entirely musical - even the pauses are like rests within a bar rather than punctuation within a sentence".
In boisterous, joyously comic novels such as "Water Music" and "World's End," he made the wheels spin and lights flash and we were taken by his fresh spirits and ability to conjure a circus within a sentence.
The Case of the Missing Comma A related issue is the epidemic of missing commas after parenthetical phrases or appositives — that is, self-enclosed material that's within a sentence, but not essential to its meaning.
Mention romantic fiction and, within a sentence, the chiffon-clad ghost of Barbara Cartland appears as predictably as the handsome heroes or damsels in distress who haunt her books.
A related issue is the epidemic of missing commas after parenthetical phrases or appositives -- that is, self-enclosed material that's within a sentence, but not essential to its meaning.
— Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" And sometimes there is more than one subject-predicate pairing within a sentence: "We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall".
Such faltering could be an instance of anacoluthon (a change of syntax within a sentence), or aposiopesis (a rhetorical term for an unfinished thought), or maybe agrammatism (a form of expressive aphasia).
