Welcome to the Grammar Minute, where we’re saving the English language sixty seconds at a time! I’m Lauren Smyth, and I’ve been seeing something online recently that I do not want to see. And that is giant walls of text with no paragraph breaks.
Chances are, you don’t think without paragraph breaks. You’re not just constantly thinking thoughts, tumbling from one topic to the next with no transition. Well, okay, maybe you are, but even if you are, you still shouldn’t write like it.
Sentences separate individual ideas. Paragraphs separate themes. They’re basically a visual outline for the reader of where one theme ends and another begins. Just because you’re writing about the same topic throughout—for example, airplanes—doesn’t mean you don’t need paragraph breaks. When you switch from talking about the engine to the wing, hit that “enter” key.
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