Structural Integrity
(First Sentence of Analysis)
“Here, Mr. Fett knew his sexual preference back in 2016.”
Topic Sentences!
“Peter’s son was born in Argentina, and ipso facto, that son has Argentine citizenship.”
Legalese is NOT Cool
“The Government took a deposition of Mr. Fett.”
Noun Instead of Verb
“There were 75 people in attendance.”
Spell Out Numbers 0-99
“Harris held A. Low held B. Huff held C. So, that means marriage contracts can be modified when it is just and fair.”
Summary, Not Synthesis
“Harris clearly held that guns are obviously dangerous.”
Unecessary Modifiers
“It was held by the Court that the Immunity Claim fails.”
Passive Voice
Q: The Court further explained what is “problematic”, and it is this debate about “Barbenheimer”.
Punctuation + Quotations
“A modification is fair and just when the economic circumstances change significantly enough. See Harris. Our case involved an economic change of more than $2,500 a month. A modification is not fair and just when there is overreach. See Low.
Here, the modification was fair and just. . . .”
Mixing Rule & Analysis
“As a result, the contract is null and void.”
Redundancy
“The employment manual of the company is so long.”
Unnecessary Words
The Court stated: “EOC law is easy . . . It boils down to lying.”
Ellipses in Quotations
“Here, the modification was fair and just. In Harris, a case not cited above in the rule paragraph, the Court held that fair and just has to do with whether the economic circumstances changed significantly.”
All Law, Then Our Facts
“Here, the EOC issue is not insignificant.”
Double Negatives
“It should be noted that Harris is dispositive.”
Phrases With No Meaning
“In Poor Things and Barbie, there were female protagonists, but in Oppenheimer there was a male one. See Poor Things; Barbie; Oppenheimer.”
Signals Use
“Here, modification of the contract is fair and just, because our case is just like Harris. It is unlike Low. Thus, the modification is fair and just.”
Leaps in Logic
“I think that you can’t always get what you want.”
Informal Language
“The Presidents ran, Lincoln won, and this is really cool because, as we all know, Presidential races are exciting when there are real lives at stake, votes to count, and winners to announce.”
This (Minus Modifier), Parallelism, & Run-On
“Courts have recognized that lies do not qualify as EOC. See Green (held that intentional misrepresentations did not rise to EOC).”
Parenthetical Sentence Rules