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English Composition · Chapter 11

The Emphasis Workbench

Emphasis is engineered, not felt. Four benches, four controls: move the words that land last, tune the lengths of a paragraph, choose which half of an idea gets the main clause, and repair a list whose grammar stopped matching. Every change you make is scored against a stated goal, because emphasis is only correct relative to what you meant.
Workbench
Pick a bench and start moving things. Every arrangement is legal English — the question is only ever which one says what you meant.