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Make your sentences specific
Avoid overpacking your sentences
Fix fragments
Pay attention to word order
Avoid mixed constructions and faulty prediction
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Which sentence is a vague sentence? a: Her stomach hurt. b: Her stomach hurt because she ate too much.
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you better say yes!
Is this a over-packed sentence? John told Phil that to achieve more control over the ball, he should practice flicking or snapping his wrist, because this action is faster in the close shots and placing a shot requires only a slight change of the wrist's angle instead of an acute movement of the whole arm, which is gives a player less reaction time.
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yes.
Is a fragment the opposite of overpacking a sentence?
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b
Which sentence is written correctly? a: Me and Sam want to go to the store. b: Sam and I want to go to the store.
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read through your rough drafts carefully to make sure that everything makes sense.
What can you do to fix mixed constructions and faulty predication?
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b
Which sentence is specific? a: Sally is now home schooled. b: After being expelled from Neenah High School, Sally had no other choice but to be home schooled.
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Split the ideas into two or more sentences, work from a simple, direct style.
What can you do to avoid overpacking your sentences?
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When you do not have enough information in your sentence, do not link together the ideas of writing.
What is a fragment?
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It is correct.
Is this the proper way to write the fallowing sentence? If no, how would you write it? After the children fell asleep, Dad put the dog outside for the night.
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a
Which sentence is correct? a: Tyler is a big part of his company and is a great guy. b: Tyler was a great guy who was really a big part of his company.
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Make every sentence contain something new, you want to allow the reader to "see" the image your creating.
What do you want to do when writing to keep your readers interested?
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Where you use to many ideas or information at once.
What does it mean to overpack a sentence?
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ex. Bob bought a farm, hoping to strike it rich (just add a comma) or ex. Bob bought a farm. He hoped to strike it rich. (just add who your talking about)
How could you fix the following sentence? Bob bought a farm. Hoping to strike it rich.
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ex. Saying our last goodbye, we watched the car drive away.
What could you add in the following sentence to make it more clear? Saying our last goodbye, the car drove away.
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You will find your subject doesn’t fit with the rest of you’re sentence. or Sentence may follow a pattern and then switch.
What does it mean to avoid constructions and faulty predication?