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Day 24: Place the main verb close to the subject.

Readers will most easily understand your sentences when you use the S + V + O sentence structure. Let’s expand on this idea.

When you are editing your sentences, find your subject and main verb and place them close together. Otherwise, the reader may have difficulty understanding what you are trying to communicate, and the sentences will be unnecessarily complicated. Consider this sentence.

“The funding proposal, which requested financial support for the new capital improvement project and was submitted by the team of regional division directors, failed to impress the investors.”

The subject “proposal” is widely separated from the main verb “failed.” Using this tip, we get the following:

“The team of regional directors submitted a proposal to fund a new capital improvement project. The proposal failed to impress the investors.”

Notice that the revised version is two sentences. This is fine. Notice also that both sentences have the subject and verb together and that they are clearer than the original.

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