The Importance of Context in Sentences

Hainemurg: Strunk and White harp on the fact that it's not just juvenile sentences that I want, but it's omit needless words. So my practice is I have some complex sentences that have a bunch of extra stuff wadding and padding,. And then we go through and we delete and I say, you have to maintain the meaning in this sentence. If meaning is lost, that is bad. The way to do that is to have good vocabulary. You need to have one word that means six. Hainemurg says he has had problems teaching his ninth graders short sentences because they actually lose a lot of context.