Friday 24 April 2015

English Writing - Sentence

Subject + Predicate
From: https://courses.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/ColWri_2.1x/3T2014/courseware/801692fcdc2a42ea8bec71e876225b3a/ff39b23897e74e3bb8b93dff56e32301/

Making sentence beautiful?
1: Clear
2: Concise
3: Strong verbs
4: Precise vocabulary
5: Length

How to achieve "Concise"?
1: No redundant
2: Watch out for wordy phrases
3: Make your subject clear and defined
4: Use strong verbs
5: Avoid vague words
6: Remove unnecessary modifiers

Bad examples:
1: ten p.m. (at night)
2: to combine (together)
3: What we found was a solution to the problem.
-> We solved the problem
   

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