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Day 86: Place clarifying adverbial phrases before or after the subject–verb combination.
A central tenet to clear writing is to keep the subject and main verb as close together as possible. However, you may need to include clarifying adverbial phrases to help the reader understand when or how the action occurred. Consider this sentence:
“The man yesterday after the wind blew fell from his ladder.”
This grammatically correct sample has two adverbial phrases: “yesterday” and “after the wind blew.” These adverbial phrases are between the subject and main verb (“man” and “fell,” respectively), making this sentence confusing and awkward.
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To fix this sentence, we move the adverbial phrases before or after the subject–verb combination, resulting in 2 possible revisions. revisions.
“After the wind blew yesterday, the man fell from his ladder.”
“The man fell from his ladder after the wind blew yesterday.”
This may not be necessary in every situation, but it will improve your sentence in most cases. In every case, this is a good tip to keep in mind so you can evaluate your sentences.