Quick Editing Tip: Rewrite Extraneous, Awkwardly, Long Noun Phrases

Adjectives and adverbs are great, but as many writing books tell you, be sure to use them in moderation. Especially, look out for those strings of adjectives and adverbs in front of nouns. Adding all these chotskies can also turn the phrase into what are known as misplaced modifiers that make a sentence’s meaning ambiguous. [...]

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