English Composition › Section I · Rhetorical analysis › Topic I.3
Editing focus: mixed sentence constructions
Some sentences start down one grammatical road and finish on another. Learning to spot these mixed constructions, and to rebuild them, keeps a sharp analysis from being blurred by sentences that do not hold together.
In this topic
- When a sentence changes direction
- A phrase posing as a subject
- Doubled subjects and shifting people
- Faulty predication
- Is when, is where and the reason is because
- Just because... doesn't mean
- A three-step repair method
- Worked example: four repairs
- Watch for these in analysis
- Worked example: editing a paragraph
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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