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Creating Clear and Emphatic Sentences
Chapter Objectives

This chapter offers details to help ensure enhanced clarity at the sentence level by reviewing how clear sentences can be built and learning to recognize sentence patterns and constructions that can cause clarity problems for readers.

The chapter objectives that follow will help you figure out whether you have really mastered the material presented in this chapter.

After reading this chapter and completing its exercises, you should be able to:

  1. Explain to another student the importance of significant subjects and dynamic verbs as key components of clear sentences

  2. Recognize potential problems with sentence clarity, such as unnecessary and excessive nominalization

  3. Use sentence patterns proven to be clear and emphatic in communicating ideas in writing



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