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[[Image:Hemingway's writing desk in Key West.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The writing desk of Ernest Hemmingway (1899–1961), an American novelist whose distinctive writing style is characterised by economy and understatement.]]
===Exercise 3: smoothly integrating ideas into a sentence===
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<font color=green>SOLUTION</font> </div><div class="NavContent" style="text-align:left; display: none;"><b><font color=green>He is the elder brother of Oasis frontman Liam Gallagh<font color=crimson>er; th</font>e two are <br/>well-known as squabbling siblings.<
*In most contexts, announcing that they're brothers and telling us that they squabble will be too different to belong in the one sentence, particularly a short one. Inserting a comma before "and" would be better than nothing, but a semicolon instead of "and" provides a more distinct boundary between the ideas.
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<b><font color=green>HINT</font><
*What's the relationship between the last clause ("but also included ...") and the previous statement?
*There's a redundant word here, too.
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<font color=green>SOLUTION</font> </div><div class="NavContent" style="text-align:left; display: none;"><b><font color=green>The accusations were largely directed towards senior civil servants, particularly in the <br/>Home Office, <font color=crimson><s>but also</s> and</font> included officers of the diplomatic core.</b>
</b>*The relationship is additive, not contrastive.<br/>
*"Largely" already indicates that the accusations were directed at other people as well.
*Therefore "and", not "but" should link to what is simply additional, expected information.
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