Chapter 6: What Band 7 Candidates Get Wrong

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   Sprint 6.1: Confidently Wrong

   Learner stops using six words whose common usage differs from their careful usage, and which mark a script as reaching beyond its control.

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   Sprint 6.2: Formality Overshot

   Learner recognises words that are formal without being better, and stops substituting them for ordinary equivalents.

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   Sprint 6.3: Words With Grammatical Baggage

   Learner learns the grammatical pattern each word requires, because knowing the meaning without the pattern produces errors that look worse than not using the word.

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   Sprint 6.4: Almost-Right Pairs

   Learner separates pairs that are close enough in form to be confused and far enough in meaning that confusing them changes the sentence.

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   Sprint 6.5: Redundancy And Compression

   Learner deletes padding phrases that consume words without adding meaning, and understands that the words saved are words available for content.

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   Chapter 6 Review: The Five Faults

   Learner consolidates the chapter's five faults as a single editing pass, and can tell the genuine rules from the pedantries the chapter deliberately refused to teach.

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