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This site's writing reports claim that excessive use of prepositions makes writing unclear. For example: "The principle of keeping nouns and verbs as close to each other as possible for the benefi...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T03:22:22Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/10289 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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histelheim
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2019-12-08T03:22:22Z (over 4 years ago)
[This site's writing reports](http://www.writersdiet.com/WT.php?home) claim that excessive use of prepositions makes writing unclear. For example: "The principle **of** keeping nouns and verbs **as** close to each other **as** possible **for** the benefit **of** readers has many benefits" However, it's not quite clear to me why this is a bad thing. Why is excessive use of prepositions a bad thing?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2014-02-09T01:34:07Z (about 10 years ago)
Original score: 6