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Day 283: For the subject of your sentence, choose the actor you wish to emphasize.

Even after you apply all the strategies and tips for writing clearly, you still may find yourself having to choose who will be the subject of the sentence. Consider these two similar sentences.

“Wilson sold Johnson a gun.”
“Johnson bought a gun from Wilson.”

These two sentences are in the active voice, they are clear and concise, and they describe the same event accurately. So what’s the difference?

The subject of the sentence is the main actor (the main do-er), and the reader will focus on the subject as being responsible for the action being described. In the first sentence above, Wilson is more responsible for the event than Johnson; in the second sentence, the reverse is true.

Once you decide whom to make responsible for the action, whom to focus on, use that person as the subject.

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