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03 - 06 Parademic Method PDF
03 - 06 Parademic Method PDF
Suggested Revisions
1. The online portal provides patients and their caregivers with additional medical data.
2. The administration decided that the student council would organize and plan the prom.
3. The union announced that teachers were striking for higher wages and better benefits.
4. The guidance department calculated the cost of applying to college and published it in the
school newspaper.
5. The detectives incompetence delayed the accident investigation. (Notice that I included the
detective, to indicate who initiated the action in the sentence.)
6. Her parents decided that their summer vacation would stop in six states.
7. The committee determined that the owners activities jeopardized company profits. (Notice here
that I used a strong verb, jeopardized, to replace put at risk by.)
8. Everyone at the party noticed the girls superior attitude.
9. The governors press office announced his environmental initiative on Earth Day. (Notice how
using the pronoun his eliminates using governor twice.)
10. Highly skilled athletes from the two rival schools competed for league dominance. (Notice how
I turned prepositional phrases into adjectives: athletes with high levels of skill = highly skilled
athletes and schools with a rivalry = rival schools.)