Wise advice:
You can almost never fix a sentence —I just quoted these lines in a reply to a thoughtful question about a troublesome sentence.
Or find a better sentence within it —
By using the words it already contains.
Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012).
I’m high on (“enthusiastically in approval or support of”) Klinkenborg’s book. My students like it too. It’s one of the best books I’ve chosen for teaching a writing course.
Other Klinkenborg posts
More from Several Short Sentences : On the English major : On e-reading
[Defintion from Merriam-Webster.]
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You can already contain a sentence —
By finding a better sentence within it —
Or using the words it almost never fixes.
:)
Brava! Or, Bravo!
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