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ablative absolute adjectives adverb advertising artistic conscience bad writing becomes better book reviews Carlyle changes clause clear clinical clinicians clumsy comparable concept construction context coordinating conjunction copula critical delete dialect difficulty discuss editing editor effect eliminate evaluation example expository writing fault Francis Bacon gerundives grammatical ideas identify improve independent clauses indicate involved James Joyce jargon journals judgment language Latin manuscript meaning medical writing medicine metaphor mind modes of expression modifiers noun noun-modifier object offer ordinarily original paper paragraph parallelism particular passage passive voice patient peer review perhaps person physician preanesthetic medication prepositional phrases problems pronoun prose publication published quotation Rachel Carson reader readily realize reference relatively rendition result revision sense single verb slang sometimes speech stage student style suggest synonyms tence thought tion translation TRANSTYLATION trying to say usage words written