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Exercise and reference answers
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- Three verbs in the same tense and shape
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- Parallel form
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- Matching structure for matching ideas
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- Parallel form
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- Moving a modifier next to what it modifies
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- Keep related words together
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- Keeping subject and verb close
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- Keep related words together
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- Putting the key word last
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- Emphatic position
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- Ending on the point you want remembered
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- Emphatic position
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- Parallel form
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- Keep related words together
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- Emphatic position
Explanation
Naming the principle behind an edit. Source: The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. (1918), public domain.