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We may know much about the proper structuring of a paper and correct spelling of words, but this does not suffice to produce a compelling manuscript. Ultimately, the power of our text hinges on the competent use of the English language. If your native tongue does not happen to be English, using proper and powerful grammar may be more difficult, but even if you are a native English speaker, you may occasionally struggle with English grammar and its proper use in scientific writing.
“There’s a great power in words,
if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”
Josh Billings
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Rogers, S.M. (2014). Forming Sentences: Grammar. In: Mastering Scientific and Medical Writing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39446-1_4
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