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Years ago, I read a short article on self editing that used highlighters (one colour for adverbs, another for adjectives etc etc). I realised by the third highlighter that I didn't know what all (most) of the parts of speech meant/are (I'm a casualty of the sixties idea that kids didn't need to know stuff like that. Stupid sixties hippies).
Despite my handicap of not knowing what the heck a "dependent clause" was (I'm assuming something Christmas related) I ended up with a lot of colours and no freaking idea what it all meant.
On the bright side, I do now have a nice bunch of coloured highlighters.
So now, I either send the "finished" product to someone who went to a private school (sans hippies) or I leave the piece for a month or so and then read it out loud to the dog. Anything that sounds weird to the dog goes.
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