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When you read more, you learn a lot more words and a lot better sentence structure and it helps to develop your own style.
NPR: Could You Be the Great American Novelist?
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Physicians like to cite a rule: Dont use the words cure and cancer in the same sentence.
FORBES: In search of antigens
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Very often they switch between languages within a single sentence, or borrow English words and put them into Spanish, making a hybrid known as Spanglish.
BBC: Life in Spanglish for California's young Latinos
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Inside the newsroom, her schoolteacherlike way of elongating words and drawing out the last word of each sentence is a subject of endless conversation and expert mimicry.
NEWYORKER: Changing Times
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We all know that using the words "relaxed" and "banker" in the same sentence is a rarity unless, of course, one is referring to the rule book.
WSJ: Tina Gaudoin on Style: When You're a Fish Out of Water
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Finally, note that there are just 14 words in the revised sentence, compared with 19 in the original, and that nine of them are one-syllable, three are two-syllable and two are three-syllable.
WSJ: Word Craft: Ben Yagoda on Not Writing Badly
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Domestically, her appeal is such that the words "heptathlete" and "tabloid fodder" can be safely used in the same sentence.
WSJ: Social Media
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The words "rapper" and "estate planning" don't usually go together in the same sentence.
FORBES: Mo' Money Blues
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Suggested words appear on the right side of the four squares, and tapping one of them adds it to a sentence.
WSJ: From QWERTY to Quirky: New Ways to Type on Glass