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Spanish · Chapter 52 · Lesson 8 · Grammar primer

Text cohesion and style

The final polish: avoiding repetition with pronouns and synonyms, the signposting phrases (en primer lugar, en resumen, cabe destacar), given-before-new flow, and the difference between a wall of short sentences and a flowing paragraph.

The short version

Drop the word the reader can already supply

Spanish leaves out anything the context refills and marks the gap with a comma. Yo quiero café y ella, té. Repeating the verb sounds clumsy. Pair that with the dropped subject, which the verb ending already names, and a paragraph stops clattering.

Unos prefieren el mar; otros, la montaña.

Some prefer the sea; others, the mountains.

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