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200 Sustantivos Mc3a1s Usados en Inglc3a9s

This document provides guidance on building better sentences by discussing five categories: 1) complete sentences to avoid fragments and run-ons, 2) clear sentences to avoid ambiguities and misplaced modifiers, 3) natural sentences to avoid deadwood and wordiness, 4) acceptable sentences by avoiding sub-standard language and double negatives, and 5) combining sentences using relative pronouns, introductory clauses, conjunctions, and appositive phrases.

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200 Sustantivos Mc3a1s Usados en Inglc3a9s

This document provides guidance on building better sentences by discussing five categories: 1) complete sentences to avoid fragments and run-ons, 2) clear sentences to avoid ambiguities and misplaced modifiers, 3) natural sentences to avoid deadwood and wordiness, 4) acceptable sentences by avoiding sub-standard language and double negatives, and 5) combining sentences using relative pronouns, introductory clauses, conjunctions, and appositive phrases.

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Building Better Sentences

For more instruction, click on the following links.

Sentence Structures and 12 Most Common English Errors for Chinese


1. Complete Sentences
 Fragments
 Comma splice
 Rambling
 Run-On sentence
2. Clear Sentences
 Incomplete comparison
 Ambiguous
 Indefinite reference
 Misplaced modifiers
 Dangling modifiers
3. Natural Sentences
 Deadwood
 Flowery (good for prose & poetry)
 Trite (cliches, idioms)
 Wordiness
4. Acceptable sentences
 Sub-standard language
 Double negative
 Unparallel construction
5. Combining Sentences
 Combine ideas
 Relative pronouns (who, whose, that, which…)
 Introductory clause: “Because…,
 “Ing” or “ed” phrased words
 Semi-colon
 Keyword
 Correlative conjunction (not only, but also, either-or)
 Appositive phrase …, ….., …..

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