SENTENCE SURGERY OVERVIEW

The tutorials in this section focus on what you need to know —and do!— in order to ensure that the structure of your sentences doesn’t fog the clarity or disrupt the flow of the ideas you want to express.

. BUILDING BLOCKS. Regardless of their length and the number of ideas they express, the core components of complete sentences are always the same.

What is a Subject? Now, the subject of a sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being. The subject is sometimes called the “naming part” of a sentence or clause. It shows what the sentence is about, or who or what is performing an action in the sentence.SUBJECT
The subject of a sentence is the person, place, or thing that is performing the action of the sentence.

PREDICATE.
The predicate expresses action or being within the sentence. …
DIRECT OBJECT.
The direct object rec

SUBJECT.
The subject of a sentence is the person, place, or thing that is performing the action of the sentence. …
PREDICATE.
The predicate expresses action or being within the sentence. …
DIRECT OBJECT.
The direct object rec

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SENTENCE FRAGMENTS: Keeping your writing free of word groupings that roughly resemble a complete sentence, but do not express a complete thought..

RUN-ON SENTENCES: How to ensure that the thoughts you express in your sentences end where you want them to end. [/lgc_column]
AVODING FUMBLED PRONOUN ANTECEDENT CONNECTIONS: The steps you need to take to ensure that your readers will have no problem associating any pronoun you use with its antecedent—the noun it is replacing
ELIMINATING REDUNDANCIES: How to weed out words and phrases that duplicate the meaning of other words or phrases in the same sentence.
MISPLACED MODIFIERS. Modifiers are the Secret Service agents sentence structure: If they’re not within whispering distance of the words they are modifying, they are not doing their jobs.
PARALLEL STRUCTURE. Parallelism is a common sentence pattern in poetry, song lyrics, and speeches, but it can also be useful in academic and business writing—as long as you don’t overdo things.