Meteor Dragon wrote:Holy shit....that is a long sentence....I wonder if I could say that in one breath ._.' but at least you had commas XD
It is possible to build longer sentences, but it would require an abuse of the semi-colon; technically speaking you can just keep using semi-colons in place of periods and it is all one sentence; however, care must be taken since it should only be done to join clauses related to each other in one way or another; because of that, you shouldn't just take random sentences and jam them together with a semicolon, and after awhile it starts looking rather odd; even if it is grammatically correct, people will still think it is wrong; which just goes to prove that people do not know grammar as well as they think they do; in fact, I recently learned while looking up grammar rules that there are several published cases of sentences being thousands of words long; James Joyce, for example, has a sentence that was 12,931 words long; surely that would be a total bitch to read all in one breath; I'd be tempted to try and outdo that, but I'm not nearly that bored; I barely had the interest to type this comparatively short sentence.
Or you can just do it repetitively. The following is a valid sentence:
The dog chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased the dog that chased the cat that chased
(repeat as often as you want) the rat.