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Coordinating conjunctions are words such as and, but, as, or, yet, for, and nor. They link or join thoughts together in the middle of a...

You may have too many short sentences in your writing. Good writing usually contains a variety of sentence lengths to make the writing more interesting. Too many short sentences often make the writing sound choppy. You should combine some of your short sentences to make the writing smoother. Here is an example of a paragraph with too many short sentences: I knew my friends would throw me a party. It was for my birthday. There was something in the air. I felt it for a whole w

Experts believe that the average sentence length should be between 15 and 20 words. This length allows your reader to absorb your ideas more easily. For example, the following sentence may be confusing to read because of its length: My favorite place to visit is my grandparents’ house near the lake where we love to fish and swim, and we often take the boat out on the lake. Breaking the sentence into two (or more) can make your writing clearer and more interesting. My favori

A sentence is active when the subject is the doer of the action. It is passive when the subject is the receiver of the action. Active sentence: Two hundred million people saw the movie. Passive sentence: The movie was seen by 200 million people. In the above examples, the action is seeing. In the active sentence, the subject (two hundred million people) is the doer of the action. In the passive sentence, the subject (the movie) is the receiver of the action. Because pass

On the first part of this blog series, I discussed a few basic guidelines to good writing in general, and on tests such as the IELTS, TOEFL, PTE, and GRE specifically. Let's continue, shall we? Language that is too informal, such as slang, is not appropriate for academic writing. It is not always easy to tell when an expression is too informal. Some expressions are used so often in spoken English that we may think it is all right to use them in academic writing too. Too inf

In this post (along with its counterparts) I will provide information on how you can address the following kinds of problems in writing: Word Repetition Inappropriate Words or Phrases Too Many Passive Sentences Too Many Long Sentences Too Many Short Sentences Sentences Beginning with Coordinating Conjunctions Alright, let's go! Word Repetition Repeating some words to emphasize your key points is a good writing technique. However, repeating the same words or sets of word