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Coordination and Subordination (main and subordinate clauses)
Independent clause: A clause—a grammatical construction containing a subject and predicate (basically, a verb) that can stand by itself as a sentence. Dependent clause: A dependent clause cannot stand… more →
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Coordination and Subordination (main and subordinate clauses)
professortashman wrote 1 year ago: Independent clause: A clause—a grammatical construction containing a subject and predicate (basicall … more →
Variety
professortashman wrote 2 years ago: 1. All sentences do not have to begin with a subject and verb. You can place an adverb modifier at t … more →
Emphasize Key Ideas. Experiment with techniques for emphasis
professortashman wrote 2 years ago: End sentences with kickers. You can withhold the important information until the final word. With a … more →
Use Active Verbs
professortashman wrote 2 years ago: Replace “be” verbs with verbs that are more dynamic. Not so good: Angel Quinones is in jail for kill … more →
Wordiness and Economy
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professortashman wrote 2 years ago: Same thought, different words Bad: McDonald’s new spicy premium chicken has a rich satisfying flavor … more →
Modifiers
professortashman wrote 2 years ago: Dangling Modifiers. A modifier, whether word or a phrase, is supposed to refer to something else in … more →
Parallelism
professortashman wrote 2 years ago: Faulty: I hated my girlfriend’s mother, and the requirement to eat three heaping platefuls of turkey … more →
Faulty Comparisons
professortashman wrote 2 years ago: Incomparable terms Do not compare items that are incomparable. Wrong: The girls of Manhattan are far … more →
Emphasis
professortashman wrote 2 years ago: Isolation. Isolating a short sentence either at the beginning or end of a paragraph can be an effect … more →
Use The Active Voice
professortashman wrote 3 years ago: A Very Passive Murder (John Vorhaus) The room was walked into by a man by whom strong, handsome feat … more →
Faults of coordination and subordination
professortashman wrote 3 years ago: Primer prose—too many short, simple sentences strung together with mind-deadening monotony. I drank … more →
professortashman wrote 3 years ago: Sentence Types and Problems Professor Billy Tashman Coordination and Subordination (also known as ma … more →
