Precise Words and Sentences

1. Precise Words and Sentences

2. The right word is the one that says exactly what you mean to say, nothing more, nothing less.

3. Inexperienced writers sometimes confuse big words for precise words. Or they search a thesaurus to find a better word but often end up using words they don’t understand in strange ways.

4. Precise words take time to think of. Most writers who use vague or inappropriate words are simply too impatient to think of the right word. Instead, they throw in a “sort of right” word like, “thing”, “stuff”, “like”, “go/went” or phrases like “kind of”.

5. Think about your own writing. What words or phrases do you use when you’re too hurried or impatient to think of the precise word???

6. Precise Nursery rhymes • A research team proceeded toward the apex of a natural geological protuberance, the purpose of their expedition being the procurement of a sample of fluid hydride of oxygen in a large vessel, the exact size of which was unspecified. One member of the team accidentally descended, sustaining severe fractural damage to the upper cranial portion of his anatomical structure. Subsequently, the second member of the team performed a self-rotational translation oriented in the direction taken by the first team member.