Journal Article

Minimize prepositional phrases. Question every of. (Part l)

Kimble, Joseph

2023

Overview

Use a possessive form * \"Plaintiffs contend that the Court improperly ruled in favor of the City in the City's favor based on the Court's interpretation of the ZO because the City did not raise this issue in its motion for summary judgment.\" [Note that the edit could have been \"for the City,\" converting a multiword preposition to a one-word preposition.] * \"Statements by the parties The parties' statements do not control the Court's analysis of the ZO.\" * \"Judge Price emphasized the tm-proper purpose of the lawsuit lawsuit's improper purpose, which was 'to spread the narrative that our election processes are rigged and our democratic institutions cannot be trusted.'\" [The edit also puts which next to what it modifies.] * \"Defendant emphasizes that, in the five years she has been incarcerated, she has obtained her GED; completed the 40-hour drug class; graduated from a 9-month, 12-step, drug-abuse program; and gone on to become one of the leaders of the program program's leaders.\" * \"As a whole, the Court finds the testimony of James James's testimony more believable than that of Berry Berry's.\" All the plaintiffs m this case were either [either were] targeted with impact munitions or chemical agents or were arrested under a challenged curfew order.\" * \"In interpreting the terms of a trust, a settlor's intent is determined by considering the language used in the trust, reading all the [its] provisions of the trust together.\" * \"The circumstances surrounding the two disclosures differ significantly in nature.\" * \"The Court directed Defendants to produce these documents by July 1, 2022.

• Publisher: Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies
• Subject: Convictions / Federal Rules of Civil Procedure / Federal Rules of Evidence / Robbery / Transfer of title / Writing