A Sentence Starts out Like

A sentence starts out like a newborn baby.  You need to smack its back to make sure that he or she is breathing and has life.  Then, you need to clean and feed the baby and let it take a nap, so it’s not cranky.  A sentence requires this type of care.  Once you formulate a sentence, you need to smack it (edit it) to make sure it makes sense.  Then you clean the sentence by changing words around that carry more meaning.  Finally, like a baby, the sentence grows.  When the baby becomes an adult, it gets married and has kids.  The sentence is the same way.  Once you put one sentence and another sentence together, you have two sentences.  You put these two sentences on a “couple’s retreat” and you now have a paragraph.  The two components of these paragraphs have kids and you now have an essay.