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Tip #438:  ...using nouns as adjectives.

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Tip  #438:  There is no rule against using nouns as adjectives.  If we could not use nouns as adjectives we would not be able to write “paper clip, picture frame, file folder, etc.”  However, always listen to the way words sound in a sentence. 

For example,

     “The Democrats wrapped the bill tightly in a procedural blanket.” 

Suppose we wrap the bill tightly “in a blanket of procedure”?  Sometimes rewriting can make the sentence sound better to us.

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This week’s quiz:

Rewrite the following sentences so they are clearer and more technically correct than the original sentence.

  1. The peer review group had a lot of objections.
  2. Please fill out and submit the above by March 1.
  3. The decision that the committee reached was all right.

Quote of the week:

“The tendency of man’s nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.”  (Meng-Tse)

Answer to this week's exercise:

Answer to this week's exercise:

  1. The peer review group had many objections.

  2. Please fill out and submit your time card (any thing concrete) by March 1.

  3. The decision that the committee reached was acceptable.

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, author, Lynne Truss The Everything Resume Book by Steven Graber
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction , by William Knowlton Zinsser  The Gregg Reference Manual, by William A. Sabin 
The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, White, E. B. White  How to Take the Fog Out of Business Writing, by Robert Gunning, Richard A. Kallan (Contributor) 

More books on business writing and other business subjects  (available from Amazon.com). 

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