I’ve written previously about how we naturally communicate verbally not so much in words or sentences, but in phrases. And yes, some short sentences are single phrases unto themselves, but it’s the larger point I’m aiming at here…that human communication happens in “groups of words” or “partial sentences” called phrases.
Peter Drew, in a very fine article he’s written on this subject, calls them though groups. (When you’re done reading that article, you’ll find a bunch more on his site.)
And when you’ve learned to read the copy that’s in front of you in natural, rhythmic phrases, shaping each one and connecting each to what goes before and comes after, you’ll be a long way ahead of most other folks who are just reading words.