Your sentences will also improve in clarity and energy when you strive for conciseness .
Conciseness means avoiding wordiness.
Reducing reliance on passive Be verb constructions will help. Remove repetitions in your prose, unless such reiteration serves a particular rhetorical purpose When you can say the same thing in fewer words without a loss of information, do so. She did not strike him as an open-minded, impartial, or objective judge. 42-24 3.When he was in the village, he saw the timbered houses, which had been built by the colonists, who brought the style from England, and they were now occupied by the aborigines, who had entered the village after the colonists had retreated. 42-33 4.The emperor, who had been drinking to the point of intoxication, staggered here and there through the city of Rome, until he eventually found a place to sleep in the garbage dump, which all the Romans used.