They may read concrete nouns such as " inn, " as in hotel, but cannot decipher more abstract words such as the preposition " in . " Or they may interpret only words spelled like they sound, understanding " winter " but not " thought ."
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The novel carried the unusual credit of " Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming " and Faulks described how using Fleming's article he had employed the same style as Fleming did in his novels : " it's standard journalistic : no semicolons, few adverbs, few adjectives, short sentences, a lot of verbs, a lot of concrete nouns.
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They're not needed in the lead, in any case . ( I was going to do this myself, but they set up later references, so it would have taken me too long . ) Then copy-edit, looking to ensure that your sentences feature concrete nouns and active verbs as far as possible .-- contribs ) 07 : 23, 24 July 2008 ( UTC)