Perhaps you already detect a certain befuddlement of sentence construction, syntactical vagueness or clumsiness of idea-imparting.
Unlike a written piece, a speech is as much about delivery as it is about content, and the audience will be less attuned to the intricacies of sentence construction and more attuned to your overall message and the expressions as you give it.
I was attaining a new power, like a secret weapon … the power to identify a psychopath merely by spotting certain turns of phrase, certain sentence constructions, certain ways of being". Armed with this new power, Ronson decides to field-test it himself.
If you're keeping count of the lofty sentence constructions.
We will also scrutinize the sequencing, shaping, and pacing of paragraphs; sentence construction, rhythm, and clarity; word choice; even punctuation.
There's a phrase for this type of humanizing sentence construction: people-first language, which Mental Health America describes as "speaking and writing in a way that acknowledges the person first, then the condition or disability".
European accents & sentence constructions flourish here.
Put it this way: Much of the book's own infrastructure -- its supporting structure of punctuation and sentence construction -- is in rough shape.
Palahniuk has achieved this by somehow inserting himself between the brainstem of a fat, worried, precocious teenage girl and, though purists might insist there's no difference, that of Russell Brand – the sentence construction wilfully self-conscious, the mistakes forgivably laughable.
A placement exam channels those with "really fundamental issues of grammar and sentence construction" into a course in basic composition.
