Chapter 2 · Practice 1 of 4
Focus each sentence on a single idea
Why it matters
Google's course on short sentences says: "Focus each sentence on a single idea, thought, or concept." It also notes that shorter documentation reads faster and that short sentences communicate more powerfully than long ones.
Before:
After:
Three sentences, three ideas, and the instruction is no longer buried at the end.
Do
- Split sentences that contain two or more ideas
- Put instructions in their own sentence
Avoid
- Long sentences chained with "which", "and" and "so"