4 lenient ways to cut the buzzwords
4 lenient ways to cut the buzzwords
Make your case open and shut by slashing the prepositions
It is the preposition that makes things more wordy and difficult to understand. Do not let the dust of words bury your ideas. It totally does not mean that preposition is a sin or vice, however. Excessive use of these keywords often, too often, ends up with readers overdosing, i.e. against the spirit of good writing.
What words come under the family of prepositions? Of, on, in by, etc. I am studying for my test. Cigarettes are injurious to health. These words are required to depict the realities and to connect the words to help drive meanings. These are some stages where you can omit these words without changing the spirit of the sentence.
Simply put, there are ways to cut( By removing excessive prepositions) the sentence to size to convey the idea with the shortest possible words.
Here are four techniques
Making use of a noun in the phrase as an adjective
Before proceeding further I would like to let you know that these methods cannot be applied everywhere. Here is an important axe to cut the sentence interestingly.
Find a noun and use it as an adjective.
Workers of Pakistan
Into
Pakistan workers
In this sentence purging sentences of the preposition makes it look better.
Now it's your turn to practice it to make yourself acquainted with all such changes.
Clerk of the office
Into
Office clerk
Use of ‘s’ to weed out prepositions
It is mostly used to show the ownership relationship. With apostrophes, it can reduce the sentences to the minimum possible.
Biggest monument of the city
Into
City’s biggest monument.
Compound modifier to cut short the sentence
That milk was as cold as ice
Into
That was ice-cold milk
‘As’, ‘from’, ‘for’, and ‘of’ mostly can be modified by this condition.
This university is bound to students
Into
This university is student-bound
Changing phrase into an adjective
People in the south
Into
Southern people
This is a very amazing method and will make stunning reductions in the sentences.
Village on the coast
Into
Coastal village
I used to live in a hotel by the sea
Into
I used to live in a seaside hotel
Conclusion
Prepositions are an important part of writing. What I meant here is to slay the preposition and use it wisely. Overdosing makes readers aghast.
So without any further duo incorporate these changes in your editorials or whatever you are working at, and take your writing skills to another level.
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