Improve_Your_Written_English
Creating similes The last two examples weresimiles. These are comparisons between two things using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’, Man ...
All of the above examples are clichés and all are metaphors. The language is metaphorical – not literally true. If it were true, ...
Economising on words Good writing is simple and easy to understand. Unnecessary words should be eliminated. If one word can repl ...
give warning to the world of the disaster that would follow. Making use of the active and passive voice Theactive voiceis more p ...
He forgot his wife’s birthday. Clare was absent in the afternoon. Avoid double negatives which make a positive: There isn’t no o ...
sentence. Some expressions to be avoided are: ‘to tell you the truth’, ‘in fact’, ‘actually’. Avoid clichés, jargon, tautologies ...
Avoid repeatedly using words like ‘and’, ‘very’, ‘nice’ and ‘got’. All of them are very overworked. Change your sen- tence struc ...
These are just a few of the sentence variations you can use.XX Using the checklist ◆ Remember to use commas in the correct place ...
(b) He gave packages to both John and I. (c) Me and June is going out. (d) The cat licked it’s whiskers while the dogs’ ate ther ...
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Writing an Essay and a Short Story Researching your essay The title If you are planning your own title, make sure you deal with ...
◆ Are there two parts to the question? ◆ What research do you need to do? ◆ What are the key words in the title? Planning your r ...
quotation marks around the quote and acknowledge its source. (See Chapter 4.) Briefly write down the facts that you will need to ...
Paragraph 1 Introduction. Paragraph 2 Show her opinion of Macbeth by her response to his letter. Her cruel delight at the King’s ...
Structuring your essay Your work should be set out inparagraphsand each para- graph will deal with one topic (see Chapter 4). Fr ...
Figure 1 is a suggested plan for the Lady Macbeth essay: ‘Lady Macbeth was a complex character who dominated her husband. With d ...
Bringing to a conclusion In your final paragraph draw all the loose ends together and bring your essay to a logical conclusion. ...
start with dialogue and this carries the reader straight into the story. Creating believable characters Try not to have more tha ...
‘tightened’ by deleting words or changing your sentence construction. Remember to write in ‘proper English’. Avoid totally any t ...
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