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EXERCISES: THE "LIGHT-before-HEAVY" PRINCIPLE

Do you know how to help your readers by making sure your sentence subjects are short and simple and placing any long, complex concepts after the verb?

NO? Check out the "light-before-heavy" principle

YES?Try the exercises! We recommend that you do the exercises in the sequence below.


EXERCISE 1: Identify the main verbs in long, complex sentences	15 min.
EXERCISE 2: Recognise sentences where the "light-before-heavy" principle is broken	20 min.
EXERCISE 3: Choose the sentences where the "light-before-heavy" principle is maintained	15 min.
EXERCISE 4: Compose the start of sentences which follow the "light-before heavy" principle	30 min.
REVIEW EXERCISE: Review the three principles for sequencing information.	30 min.
Total =	2 hours