Other verbs, such as become, feel, look, seem, sound, and taste function as linking verbs. Although linking verbs serve a useful function in the English sentence, they are. Overusing these verbs produces flat, boring, ineffective writing. For the most part, such useless verbs should be eliminated from your writing. A. Many sentences can be made more effective by eliminating the dead wood.
Much dead wood is found at the beginning of sentences.
Here were B. Clear, effective business writing is often achieved by writing short sentences, not long, rambling ones. Such long prose weakens the effectiveness of a sentence and frequently causes reader confusion by overloading the sentence with information. In such long sentences, more frequently than not the conjunctions and , but , for , so , and yet appear. Be on the lookout for sentences containing more than one of these coordinate conjunctions. When such long and often complicated sentences appear, shorten them by dividing them into two separate sentences.