Chapter 6 Effective Sentences

■ Summary Developing a Clear Style ■ give your sentences content ■ make your sentences specific ■ avoid overpacking your sentences ■ fix fragments ■ pay attention to word order ■ avoid mixed constructions and faulty predication Practicing What You’ve Learned, P.125 Developing a Concise Style ■ avoid deadwood constructions ■ avoid redundancy ■ carefully consider your passive verbs ■ avoid pretentiousness Practicing What You’ve Learned, P.131

Assignment Developing a Lively Style ■ use specific, descriptive verbs ■ use specific, precise modifiers that help the reader see, hear, or feel what you are describing ■ emphasize people when possible ■ vary your sentence style ■ avoid overuse of any one kind of construction in the same sentence ■ don’t change your point of view between or within sentences