LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Question
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To CRISP a sentence is to
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Cut out every word that can be spared. Cut all phrases like “due to the fact that” and “in order to” that don’t say anything. Focus on meaning
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Reduce clauses to appositives or phrases.
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Intensify weak verbs. Circle all of the verbs to find weak ones (pesky be verbs).
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Seek the very BEST words for the audience and the purpose.
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Pack prepositional phrases behind nouns. Instead of “A proposal presented by Derek Bok, the president of Harvard, was defeated.” Pack it to “Harvard president Derek Bok’s proposal failed.”
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Explanation:
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