Comprehension is facilitated when a reader is guided by an effective sentence pattern. Concinnity is the bonus. There is poetry in quality medical writing. Space does not permit a comparable examination of phrases. After a brief presentation of grammatical characteristics, each syntactical structure will be examined as to its effectiveness for achieving the rhetorical intents cited above.
Clarity is clarity.
Additional confirmation of these results was provided by categorizing the syntactical features of sample sentences submitted for their excellence by participants in past AMWA workshops. Various disclaimers apply.