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Let it be

Of several small, versatile words that are widely used by English authors and hardly ever turn up in non-native texts, the one that’s missed most often is “let”.

Posted byMike WilkinsonJune 25, 2020June 25, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Style, Underused wordsTags:Door..., dunglish, engels, in staat stellen, laten, toestaan1 Comment on Let it be

By starting sentences like this…

… you are forced into a clumsy structure. Avoiding it lets you make the syntax snappier.

Posted byMike WilkinsonJune 17, 2020June 17, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Longwindedness, Passive voice, Style, Underused wordsTags:Door..., dunglish, engels, lijdende vorm, passivum3 Comments on By starting sentences like this…

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