: You are hitting an interesting question here. I am a native French speaker and I struggled with the same issue when I learnt English. My English writing used to reflect my French upbringing.

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You are hitting an interesting question here. I am a native French speaker and I struggled with the same issue when I learnt English.

My English writing used to reflect my French upbringing. It is considered a skill to be able to craft long, complex sentences in French, using encapsulations and appositions.

Fortunately enough, my English teacher explained to me that he was more interested in the substance of my arguments rather than by my ability to show off grammatical skillfulness.

I now get strange looks from French colleagues when I use four-word sentences to answer their queries. My word of advice: value concision over circumlocution.

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