Tameness Exercise Sovenliness Exercises Wordiness Exercises Verbal Discords Exercise 1.

<Wordiness> As a precaution against tameness you should cultivate spontaneity and daring.

" EXERCISE - Wordiness I Express these ideas in simpler language:

EXERCISE - Wordiness II 1. Condense the editorial (Appendix 1) by eliminating unnecessary words and finding briefer equivalents for roundabout expressions.

A final device for escaping wordiness you will have discovered for yourself while composing telegrams and telegraphic night letters.

" EXERCISE - Wordiness III 1.

(See paragraph above EXERCISE - Wordiness III above.)

See Activity 2 of EXERCISE - Wordiness III above for a statement of Defoe's purpose.

" His unwonted wordiness inspirited me.

We have imitations of Cowper, and even of Milton here, engrafted on the natural drawl of the Lakersand all diluted into harmony by that profuse and irrepressible wordiness which deluges all the blank verse of this school of poetry, and lubricates and weakens the whole structure of their style.

But if such be the common hazards of seeking inspiration from those potent fountains, it may easily be conceived what chance Mr. Wordsworth had of escaping their enchantment,with his natural propensities to wordiness, and his unlucky habit of debasing pathos with vulgarity.

The disjunctive connexion of explicit pronouns is the most correct, but it savours too much of legal precision and wordiness to be always eligible.

Again he found himself interrupted by the wordiness of the doctor.

They appear very wise in their wordiness when real military experts are silent for want of knowledge.