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Reducing adverb clauses for brevity

The preceding chapter showed how sentences can be streamlined by reducing their adjective clauses to adjective phrases — a simple process that omits the relative pronouns “that,” “which,” “who,” “whom ...
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared ...
Charlie Simpleton gets an early acceptance letter to a major California university. Charlie: Look, Ma! I think I got an early acceptance to the school I always wanted to go. I’m going to be a cottage ...
The oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter lived up to the hype. Not so much like a sporting event, but a wrestling match where ...
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