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Put prepositional phrases in their proper places

July 28, 2015

DrawingSentencesEver wondered how prepositional phrases could cause the demise of a personal statement or simply a confused reader? Perhaps your learning how to diagram sentences (many of my clients are experts at diagramming) will help you visually see how parts of a sentence fit together. I use Eugene Moutoux’s book, Drawing Sentences—A Guide To Diagramming.

A client regretted submitting a personal statement with the following sentence:

I will never forget when I saw someone die for the first time.

Instead of writing:

I will never forget the first time I saw someone die.

When I responded to the essay with my comments, I asked: How many times does a person die?

Sentence diagramming may seem old fashion, but the process certainly puts prepositional phrases in their proper places.

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