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The Passive Can Create Ambiguity | 30 |
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action active voice adjectives agreement ambiguity American Legal Usage Answers apostrophe attorney fees attorney-client privilege avoid base verbs cause claim client trust colon contract corporate counsel court David Mellinkoff defendant Defendant's dictionary Elegant variation element Ernest Gowers example Exercise express fact filed following passage gaps glue words hyphen independent clauses injunction instance intentional International Business Machines interrogatories issue John The ball join two independent Jose Cruz jurors jury jury instructions kicked by John kicked the ball Language quirks Law Review lawyer lawyer's coupled synonym legal writing litigation ment modify motion noun chains object omitting surplus words ordinary English parentheses party passive voice person phrase plaintiff privilege pronoun punctuation question quotation Randolph Quirk reader reason revised Rewrite these sentences Rudolf Flesch semicolon Sense & Nonsense sentence looks Sidney Greenbaum statute supra note syntactic tence testimony tion trial judge truncated passive vagueness Verbose witness word-wasting idioms