: Re: Does excessive use of prepositions make writing unclear? This site's writing reports claim that excessive use of prepositions makes writing unclear. For example: "The principle of keeping nouns

@Caterina108

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Some people have difficulty with complex and subtle concepts. These ideas are hard to express with simple sentences. Using simple sentences to express these ideas makes you sound wordy and pedantic. Using this method to slow down the flow of ideas may make them easier to understand for some people. Some people will not understand no matter how you present the idea.

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Mistaking the symptom of involved sentence structure for the cause of complex ideas in the critiquing of writing particularly in automated comprehension assessment tools is common.

sorry for being meta.

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