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A small practice for the crowded sentence

A practical exercise: Separate the conditions in the order they will be used.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Words that carry their weight

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A sentence asks the reader to remember three separate conditions.
  2. Separate the conditions in the order they will be used.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

Try a question

Which piece of context will matter when somebody returns to this later?