Sentences

This branch covers constructing and revising individual sentences, divided by the kind of sentence decision: structure, attachment, voice and shortening. It leaves grammatical forms to grammar, separating marks to punctuation, coherence between sentences to paragraphs and flow, and first-language transfer to English across languages.

• Building a sentence — clause patterns, information order, parallel structure and verb tense or form
• Word order, attachment and ambiguity — misplaced relationships and unintended readings within a sentence
• Active and passive voice, and verbs buried in nouns — focus on action and actor, first-person writing and nominalisation
• Conciseness and sentence reduction — cutting wordiness and using smaller grammatical units while preserving meaning