1. a style of writing that presents the most important information first journalism 2. derived by reasoning colloquial english 3. makes sense before its end periodic sentence 4. a sentence or paragraph leading from one topic or aspect of a topic to another inverted pyramid 5. clauses parallel one another in meaning and grammatical structure lead sentence 6. not complete in meaning or grammatical structure without its final words transition 7. sentence that contains who, what, where, when, why, and how information inferred 8. newspaper reporting is an example of loose sentence 9. everyday, informal conversational english balanced sentence