https://writegroup.io/delete-glue-words-to-unstick-your-sentences/ Better business outcomes with clear, effective writing. Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:12:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://writegroup.io/delete-glue-words-to-unstick-your-sentences/#comment-17953 Fri, 04 Feb 2022 15:18:22 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=6236#comment-17953 The examples here, and in all the other articles I’ve read on ‘glue words’, are so clunky that they wouldn’t pass the feeblest edit. I’ve never encountered anyone who writes like that. Function words (to give them their polite name) are essential to understanding text, and a string of lexical words is harder to decode than balanced prose. There are rare situations, like giving orders in military combat, where you might say ‘ready drone for launching’ (25% ‘glue’) but it’s not how real people speak or write. And if you write fiction, you intend (I hope) it to reflect what real people do and say.

]]> https://writegroup.io/delete-glue-words-to-unstick-your-sentences/#comment-11025 Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:35:41 +0000 https://writegroup.io/?p=6236#comment-11025 I try for a maximum of 40% but prefer less. However, I find short sentences are more difficult to edit out glue words.

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