Download as pdf or txt
Download as pdf or txt
You are on page 1of 1

The manuscript is something important.

Keep related words together.


The position of the words in a sentence is the principal
means of showing their relationship. The writer must therefore,
so far as possible, bring together the words, and groups of
words, that are related in thought, and keep apart those which
are not so related.
The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not,
as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be
transferred to the beginning.
Wordsworth, in the fifth book of The Excursion, gives a
minute description of this church. > In the fifth book of The
Excursion, Wordsworth gives a minute description of this
church.
Cast iron, when treated in a Bessemer converter, is
changed into steel. > By treatment in a Bessemer converter,
cast iron is changed into steel.
The objection is that the interposed phrase or clause
needlessly interrupts the natural order of the main clause. This
objection, however, does not usually hold when the order is
interrupted only by a relative clause or by an expression in
apposition. Nor does it hold in periodic sentences in which the
interruption is a deliberately used

You might also like