Plain English for Lawyers, Volume 10 |
Contents
Use Base Verbs Not Nominalizations | 25 |
Arrange Your Words with Care | 43 |
Choose Your Words with Care | 57 |
Copyright | |
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abstraction action active voice adjectives adverb agreement ambiguity Answers apostrophe attorney fees avoid base verbs cause Charrow claim colon contract corporation counsel David Mellinkoff defendant Defendant's Dictionary Drafting Manual Elegant variation Ernest Gowers evidence law example Exercise express fact filed following passage gaps Garner glue words hearsay hyphen independent clauses injunction instances intentional issue join two independent Jose Cruz Joseph Kimble jurors jury instructions kicked by John kicked the ball language quirk lawyer lawyer's coupled synonym legal writing litigation meaning ment modifiers motion noun chains object omitting surplus words parentheses party passive voice person phrase Plain English plaintiff pound construction pronoun punctuation question quotation reader reason relative pronoun revised Rewrite these sentences Rudolf Flesch semicolon six weeks old statute strong nouns supra note Supreme Court tabulation tence testimony tion trial judge unless useless compound construction verbose witness word order writing style