Task 6. Say what is wrong with the sentences and improve them: 1. It is given as a rule, which however is not the only such rule you may encounter, that in technical writing sentences should not exceed a desirable length of ten to fifteen words, never should fall below seven words or extend beyond the ultimate limit of tolerable length reached at twenty words, even though longer sentences may be found in high literature, where even punctuation as it is used in this example to facilitate reading is often omitted in novel experimental ways.
2. Sentences may be short. Then they are easy to read. And understand, too. But they look abrupt. And breathless. As well as leaving the reader restless.
3. Using the same words all over to describe the same things again and again is not pleasant even more so when we can use different words to replace those same words we are using again and again to describe the same thing in the same words.
4. The result of building a highway through the farmland was increased profit-seeking by some property owners and the eventual loss of land adjacent to the highway to contractors' commercial and residential construction projects.
5. This section aims to demonstrate the relevance of the proposal to the needs and constraints of the target groups and final beneficiaries
6. After reading this material, the board will determine appropriate actions…
7. The task was not possible.

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