The last sentence of a paragraph can on occasion be used effectively to say something witty, ironic, or even contradictory.

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Each sentence in a paragraph will be understood not by itself, but only in the context made for it by the sentence before it.

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For readers, a paragraph is not experienced as a series of separate sentences. Each sentence must flow into the next.

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Paragraphs have significant beginnings, middles, and ends, but no single, set structure that must be constantly reproduced.

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The 5-sentence paragraph taught in school — topic sentence, body, conclusion — rarely exists in professional prose. Forget it.

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