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The phrase "adding a word" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the act of including an additional word in a sentence or phrase for clarity or emphasis.
Example: "In order to improve the sentence, I suggest adding a word that better describes the subject."
Alternatives: "including a word" or "inserting a word".
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Sometimes just adding a word makes all the difference.
But adding a word of caution, he said: "Manufacturing and capital spending do not function in a vacuum.
"It's because of you we're out of work," they were said to have shouted, adding a word that can't be printed here.
In 1971, Dr Wayne E Oates wrote Confessions of a Workaholic: The Facts about Work Addiction, adding a word to the lexicon of the English language.
The manuscript itself is remarkably clean, typed on a Royal portable with just a few handwritten corrections fixing a typo, adding a word or changing a "that" to a "which," often incorrectly.
Donning red-framed eyeglasses, Mirren set to work picking through the dialogue and rerecording it — sometimes adding a word, sometimes a mumble, sometimes improvising half sentences or exclamations so that the lines landed better in the scene.
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But he adds a word of warning.
No one can add a word to them.
"They need to add a word," he said.
Few men have been privileged to add a word to the English language.
When he passed the clemency proposal on to Mr. McCord, he added a word of advice.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com