English Composition › Section U · Handbook: grammar, style, and documentation › Topic U.2
Clear and concise sentences
A clear sentence is understood on the first reading; a concise one spends no words it does not need. Both come from a few habits you can learn: put the doers and their actions up front, choose the active voice when it fits, and cut padding without cutting meaning.
In this topic
- Clear first, then concise
- Characters as subjects, actions as verbs
- Nominalisations and action verbs
- Active and passive voice
- When the passive is the right choice
- Worked example: finding the actions
- Redundancy and empty phrases
- Emphasis and parallelism
- Worked example: editing a paragraph
- Plain language
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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