Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Episode 19 - More on modifiers, including the useless and the dangling. And clunky reach words.

June 06, 2022 James Thayer

Many adjective and adverb s do nothing but pad a sentence, making the sentence rickety.  Here are some techniques on avoiding these useless or unintentionally funny modifiers.  Plus, some words are just too much.  We'll avoid these, too.

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