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Lesson: Sentence Correction Challenging - 20

Stylistic Errors

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Some of the explanations that you've read in this module have asked which choice sounds better than another. Often, you were listening more for style than for grammar. Grammatically, it's correct to say "a book belonging to James" and "James's book." However, "James's book" is more concise, using fewer words to get the basic point across. The Exam values conciseness in language; for this reason an answer choice containing the phrase "James's book" may very well be the correct choice.

Stylistic errors fall into three basic groups:

  1. Redundancy
  2. Excessive Wordiness
  3. Confusing Word Order

Let's look at each of these.


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