Writers Tricks of the Trade Volume 6 Issue 2 | Page 30

PRESS “CONTROL” THEN CLICK “BUY” TO PURCHASE ANY BOOK SYNTAX (CONT’D) and throw his shrew of a mother off a real train! As I searched, I found some real gems.  The dealer sold the Cadillac to the buyer with leather seats. So was that buyer wearing leather pants or what?  They saw a fence behind the house made of barbed wire. Now that would have been a neat house for one of the three little pigs.  The waiter served a dinner roll to the woman that was well buttered. Except for the use of ‘that’ instead of ‘who’ maybe the woman had a unique way of wiggling into skin-tight jeans.  Joan piled all of her clothes in the hamper that she had worn. I wonder how much attention she attracted as she walked down the street. The point of all this Make sure your sentences and phrases are ordered in a way that makes sense. You don’t want people secretly asking questions like the ones above. Do you have some favorites? Send them to [email protected] MARCH - APRIL 2016 PAGE 20 WRITERS’ TRICKS OF THE TRADE