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"Please Note that Throat-Clearing Phrases Exist"

This post was written by Wayne Schiess: "The beginning of a sentence is an important place. It's often where you win or lose the reader's attention and focus. Here is one weak way of beginning a sentence that legal writers usually ought to avoid.

Throat-clearing phrases

It should be noted that this sentence is just fine. Moreover, I would like to point out that there is nothing wrong with this sentence, either. It must be acknowledged that there is nothing wrong with beginning sentences with these phrases..."

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Source: Legalwriting.net Blog, 25 March 2010. Copyright 2008. Reproduced with permission of the author

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).