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Clouse: Jumpstart
Jumpstart!: A Workbook for Writers, 2/e
Barbara Fine Clouse

Special Sentence Structure Challenges

Learning Objectives

This chapter will explain:
  • How to identify and eliminate simple subjects and verbs that do not make sense together
  • How to identify and eliminate illogical equations
  • How to identify and eliminate problems with "is...when," "is...where," and "the reason...is because"
This chapter will also:
  • Explain how to identify and eliminate mixed sentence structures