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Use The Clearest Verb
Use the clearest, crispest, liveliest verb to express your thoughts. It is a simple truth that in most sentences you should express action through verbs, just as you do when you speak. Yet in so many sentences the verbs are smothered, all their vitality trapped beneath heavy noun phrases based on the verbs themselves. Example:
Reinstating the verb in the sentence produces much crisper writing. Example:
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