True or false: sentence structure
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Co-ordinate ideas should take similar grammatical form.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Related words belong close together.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- A summary should switch tense freely.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- A run of loose sentences should be avoided.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Emphatic words belong at the end of the sentence.
Explanation
The structural rules of composition. Source: The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. (1918), public domain.