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Sentence fitness
- [Instructor] So we're going to talk about sentence fitness in this video. In other words, keeping your sentences free of basic punctuation errors and eliminating wordiness. I'll go over an incorrect example of each of these things then show you a correct one so you can tell the difference. Complete sentences in English need both a subject and a verb that relates to that subject. People talk, that's a complete sentence. Because people is the subject and talk is the verb. Also, even the phrase: It moved, is a complete sentence 'cause pronoun 'it' acts as a subject and the verb is: moved. Now if we have a sentence fragment, this is something that is not a complete sentence. In other words, it cannot stand alone. If I just said to you, "Seeing that you didn't do your homework yesterday." That's not a sentence by itself, it doesn't really make sense. It's a fragment. Even this one, "Published in 1984, the novel Neuromancer "being one of the first to predict the rise of virtual "reality…
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Sentence correction basics1m 14s
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Sentence correction technique5m 22s
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Sentence components2m 45s
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Agreement2m 58s
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Sentence fitness3m 14s
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Modification2m 30s
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Word pairs and parallelism2m 46s
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Comparisons1m 25s
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Verb tense1m 13s
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Diction and idiom1m 39s
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