2010年8月24日 星期二

"Style" by JM Williams: Lesson 3 Action

Lesson 3 重點整理

英文句子有固定文法: Subject | Verb | (其他)
讓讀者易讀的原則:
1. Express important actions in verbs: 重要的"動作"盡量以動詞呈現,而不要以 nominalization形式呈現 (如-ing, -tion, -ment, -ence, -ry等)

2. Make the subjects of those verbs the characters associated with those actions: 執行"重要動作"的characters要當作句子的主詞 (可以是主要句子的主詞或是子句的主詞)
* Make main characters subjects

3. Nominalizations使用的時機:
(1) They refer to a previous sentence
(2) They replace an awkward The fact that
(3) They name what would be the object of a verb
(4) They name a concept so familiar to your readers that it is a virtual character

p.40-41: 修改步驟

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