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In concise writing what is the writer trying to convey?
Exactly what is said
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Fix this sentence to flow. "The report was short it was persuasive. It changes my mind.
The report was short, but persuasive; it changes my mind.
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What are the three varying sentence openings?
Transitional Expression, Phrases, Dependent Clauses.
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What is one way people empasize a specific word of phrase?
By raising voice of stressing important word or phrase is
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I connect words of groups of words to each other and tell something about the relationship between these words. I have a definate function.
What is a conjunction?
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When you are writing concise what is being eliminated from the sentences?
Unnessary words
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What does a semicolon do to a sentence.
Makes the sentence percise, relationship clear.
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What are the three varying sentence types?
Grammatical types, functional types, rhetorical types.
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How would you put emphasis on $500,000; "I gave $500,000 to the wildlife campaign last year."
Last year, I gave the wildlife campaign $500,000.
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I am what the sentence is all about.
What is the subject?
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Replace this wordy phrase with a concise word; "due to the face that"
because
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Coordination does what to a sentence.
Coordination can help make explicit the relationship between two ideas.
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What does a cumulative sentence begin with?
Independent clause
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Revise the sentence in climatic order; "Violent video games assault our eyes, damage our brains, and offend our ears."
Violent video games offend our ears, assualt our eyes, and damage our brains.
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I modify (limit the meaning of) nouns and pronouns, usually by describing, identifying or quantifying those words.
What is an adjective?
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When expletives are deleted in a sentence, what is being done to that sentence?
It becomes strengthened
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What does subordination do to a sentence?
Puts less imporant ideas in dependant clause or in phrases or words that serve as modifiers.
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What is one of the functional types and what does it do
Command; Question; Exclamation
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Revise in invested order; "Two dead birds plummeted out of the tree."
Out of the tree plummeted two dead birds.
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When nouns become to repetative, I will jump in their place.
What is a pronoun?
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Whice voice is wordier, passive of active?
Passive
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What does coordination and subordination do to a sentence?
Give the sentence more ideas by using commas and colons.
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What is the main purpose of a peridic sentences?
To postpone the main idea until the very end of the sentence.
500
Replace the verb in quotations with a strong verb; "Sidewalk artists offered to 'do' my portrait in 10 minutes."
Sidewalk artists offered to 'sketch' my portrait in 10 minutes.
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When telling a story from this view point, use words such as I, me, we or us.
What is first person?