Learner moves a long or complex constituent to the end of the sentence, and stops stranding the verb behind a heavy subject.
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Five parts, placeholder first, heavy clause last.
Build this sentence with the placeholder *it* holding the subject position and the heavy part at the end.
Six pairs, both correct. Two of them need no change at all.
Which reads faster?
The placeholder, the two repairs, and the exception.
That the scheme failed within two years surprised nobody.
Nine words arrive before the verb. The reader holds all of them, then finds out what they are for.
Nothing is wrong. It is simply slower than it needs to be.
One load, two positions on the barrow.
The same load. One of them you can push.
Eight sentences. Three should be left alone.
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One heavy sentence, repaired both ways, and a choice.
Topic: university tuition fees.
Sentence 1: write it with a long subject before the verb — at least eight words.
Repair A: the same content with a placeholder, weight at the end. Repair B: the same content as two sentences.
Then say which you would submit.
Label each one.
One sentence.
Say what the repair you rejected would have lost.