Lesson 5: Emphasis

Your sentences should begin with:

• relatively long elements

• long elements

• understandable terminology

• relatively short elements

The second sentence is a paraphrased first one. In the second sentence, the special emphasis is put on:

• The issue of verification

• so central to arms control

• the administration

(more than 1 answer is possible). To put the correct emphasis in a sentence you should:

• Trim the end

• Shift peripheral ideas to the right

• Shift peripheral ideas to the left

• Shift new information to the right

Ellipsis is:

• Changing the order of the words

• Using synonyms to substitute the word already used

• Deleting words that repeat earlier ones

Readers are more likely to notice themes if you emphasize them ________ of the sentence that introduces that passage.

• in the middle

• in the end

• in the beginning

• in whichever part

The most emphatic part of a statement is:

The general principle for using complex terminology is to carry the reader not from simplicity to complexity, but from complexity to simplicity.

• True

• False

The clearest _____ is a short noun phrase that comes early in a sentence, usually as its subject.