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abbreviations, don't use needless abbreviations
academic
or bureaucratic prose
action and static verbs
active voice
active and passive voice in Materials and Methods sections
adjective
clauses
adverbs
adverb
clauses
adverb
position
appositives
auxiliary verbs
because of vs due to
blah blah blah sentence form
books about writing
brainstorming
bureaucratic
or academic prose
clichés
clauses
coherence and cohesion
comma, serial
comprise vs compose
coordinating
conjunctions
dashes
dangling infinitives
dangling modifiers
(dangling participles, gerunds, infinitives)
dangling participles
dealing with journals (editors and reviewers)
dependent
clauses, clumsy dependent
clauses
diction defined
direct objects also here
and here
due to vs because of
effective
writing
first
paragraphs
gerunds
gerund
phrases (under verbs and verbals)
gerund phrases
(under phrases)
grammar defined
however (is not
a coordinating conjunction)
identifying sentence components
impact
in vs into
in order to
independent
clauses
infinitives
and infinitive phrases
intransitive verbs
it is ....
jargon
like vs as
main
verbs
nominalization, in
academic/bureaucratic prose, examples
nonrestrictive
elements
nouns
as adjectives
noun
clauses
numbers in text, do not repeat
parallel structure
paragraphs, how to revise
passive expressions
common in science
passive voice also here
past participial phrases
phrases
plays a role in
Politics and the
English Language
position
of adverbs
predicate adjectives
predicate nominatives
prefabricated
expressions
prepositions - a
list
prepositional
phrases
prepositional
phrase strings
present participial phrases,
and here
pronoun
reference
propaganda
pseudoreplication
relative
pronouns
repetition,
unintended
respectively
restrictive
elements
round off to meaningful decimal places
scholarly
or academic prose
semicolons
sentence components, identifying
sentences, how to revise
serial comma
splitting
infinitives and compound verbs
subject
subjunctive
mood
subordination
subordinating
conjunctions
syntax defined
tense
that
and which, excessive use
that vs which
that
(when can you delete it)
There
are ...
'to be' verbs
totally
track
changes
transitive verbs
unintended
repetition
usage defined
verbals
very
voice vs
tense
weak verbs
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