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Action-verb problems: actions missing in action
Spotting action-verb separations
Fixing action-verb separations
Evaluating action-verb separations in context
Fun with action-verb separations
Character-subject problems: characters missing in action
Spotting character-subject separations
Fixing character-subject separations
Evaluating character-subject separations in context
Fun with character-subject separations
Spotting Bad Passive Voice—both good and bad
Fixing passive-voice nominalizations
Evaluating passive voice in context
Evaluating wordiness in context
Evaluating expletives in context
Evaluating noun stacks in context
Awkward, wordy, perplexing negatives
Demoralizing, insulting negative language
Spotting problem negative language
Fixing problem negative language
Fun with problem negative language
Wordy metadiscourse and hedging
Evaluating metadiscourse and hedging in context
Fun with metadiscourse and hedging
Evaluating choppy text in context
Expandinging Words and Phrases
Compressing Phrases and Clauses
Long introductions & interruptions
Fun with long introductions & long interruptions
Spotting overly long sentences
Evaluating long sentences in context
Fun with overly long sentences
Review of sentence-style problems
Additional resources
Coordination and subordination
Sentence diagramming: a simple method
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