Writing Well: Avoiding Vague Expressions and Empty Modifiers
Some words and phrases tend to weaken the effect of a piece of writing because they do not enhance the meaning of the document. Consider avoiding these vague expressions and "empty" modifiers that add little value to your writing.
Vague Expressions
- a lot
- a large amount
- a great deal
- kind of
- sort of
- due to
- thing
- anything
- something
- in my opinion
- in conclusion
- etc.
- and so on
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Empty Modifiers
- good
- better
- best
- great
- excellent
- nice
- amazing
- awesome
- bad
- terrible
- very
- really
- absolutely
- basically
- definitely
- extremely
- mainly
- hopefully
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