Read the passage from Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice.
She could think of nothing more to say; but if he wished to converse with her, he might have better success. He stood by her, however, for some minutes, in silence; and, at last, on the young lady's whispering to Elizabeth again, he walked away.
When the tea-things were removed, and the card-tables placed, the ladies all rose, and Elizabeth was then hoping to be soon joined by him, when all her views were overthrown by seeing him fall a victim to her mother's rapacity for whist players, and in a few moments after seated with the rest of the party.
How does sentence structure affect this piece of writing?
The unusual, irregular sentence structure makes it hard to tell who each sentence is about.
The simple sentence structure makes the writing informal and conversational.
The complex sentence structure makes the writing formal and refined.