There are some people who cannot put a decent sentence together. They are either too wordy or too choppy with their sentence structure. I've seen paragraph long sentences. I've seen ten to twelve consecutive two, three and four word sentences. Both are bad.
Here's my advice to writers and editors (since writing editors often need editors as bad as other writers) - if your grammar is bad, keep your sentences simple. Hopefully, all authors understand nouns and verbs connect to make a sentence.
EX: Peter ran. Sally walked. Sue climbed.
The problem with that is most readers want more details. Where did Peter run? Where did Sally walk? What did Sue climb? That's when you have to use prepositional phrases, adjectives, adverbs, etc.
EX: Peter ran to the store. Sally walked home. Sue climbed the tree.
EX: Peter ran quickly. Sally walked slowly.
Those are simple sentences. However, simple and correct is much better than complex and wrong. I will soon post on descriptive words. Writing is supposed to paint a picture.
1 comment:
Never thought of it like that.
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