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Here are 4 tips to help level up your writing game. ๐
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- So not like have been would have been carried.
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0:00They think I sound smart. It sounds smart because it's simple. It's present voice. It's active, not passive. The body was carried out of the room. We carried the body. Or it's simple tenses. So not like have been would have been carried. It's just we carried. No adverbs. Usually adverbs are placeholders for shitty verbs. We shut the door really hard. We slammed the door. Very super way that condenses it down. Short sentences. So simple sentences. Almost always max one comma for the most part. And whenever you have like two comma like it's like blah blah blah comma comma and then the thing.
0:33Usually you can just rip it out or reframe it so there's just one sentence. And then again, the vocab is under third grade. Ideally fifth grade tops.