Consider the following toy example:
Chess is a board game. More precisely, there are 2 players. There is an 8 by 8 grid. There are 6 kinds of pieces. There are...
It seems to me that the scope of more precisely should cover the multiple sentences that follow it, but not just there are 2 players. I wish I could write something like this:
Chess is a board game. More precisely: {There are 2 players. There is an 8 by 8 grid. There are 6 kinds of pieces. There are...}
This problem sometimes bothers me, especially when I am writing academic articles, where a term has two different discriptions, one is more concise, and the other often in multiple simple sentences, and I want to connect the first concise description of the term with its multi-sentence explanantion by an adverbial phrase such as more precisely. What are some good ways I can do this?
I know that the toy example is not a good illustration of the above, but I can't think of an example at hand that is not too technical. Something similar would be this: First define an adjective chessy to mean every property of the chess game. Then the example becomes:
Chess is a chessy game. More precisely, there are 2 players. There is an 8 by 8 grid. There are 6 kinds of pieces. There are...
Some simple (but not satisfactory) workarounds I can think of are:
- using point form
- using a descriptive sentence after the adverbial phrase:
Chess is a chessy game. More precisely, the following properties hold for the chess game. There are 2 players. There is an 8 by 8 grid. There are...
