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They will just love your writing but they won’t know why. Hear how much sharper that sounds (on paper)? No reader will sit back and marvel at how well you order your clauses (or avoid passive voice, or use verbs rather than nouns, or remove words with no meaning).

If you need further clarification, please let me know. Please let me know if you need further clarification. If our sentence contains a condition, it should always come first, even when we simply sign off on an email: Where the opponent had a chance to file a written objection, adequate notice has been provided. When it creates renewal districts, the Portland Commission acts under constitutional authority. If this Brexit thing happens, I'm moving to Borneo. That chronological flow helps our readers remember what is important and keeps them moving forward. (See Tip: “The Best-Kept Writing Secret of All Time.”) A condition must always happen, or fail to happen, first, so we place it at the beginning of the sentence to set the stage for our main point. Properly arranged sentences will be chronological: What happens first, goes first. These sentences make a U-turn at the end, taking our reader back with them and burying the main point. The Portland Commission acts under constitutional authority, when it creates renewal districts.Īdequate notice has been provided where the opponent had a chance to file a written objection. I'm moving to Borneo, if this Brexit thing happens. Too often we place the conditional clause at the end of a sentence, which prevents us from emphasizing the main point (which is not the condition) and counteracts the natural flow of ideas for our readers. With if, when, where, or because (or one of dozens of similar words) and states a condition that must occur or not occur before something else can occur or not occur, or has already occurred or not occurred, prompting something else to occur or preventing something else from occurring. The term conditional clause explains itself.