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
 Empty Modifiers

  • good
  • better
  • best
  • great
  • excellent
  • nice
  • amazing
  • awesome
  • bad
  • terrible
  • very
  • really
  • absolutely
  • basically
  • definitely
  • extremely
  • mainly
  • hopefully

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