But that also shifted the subject of interest from the subject of the sentence to the direct object, which is a position of secondary importance to the subject, which is the semantically weak "it".
-FR ________________________________ From: Framers <[email protected]> on behalf of Doug <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:09 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit" ???? > > >>> For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide". > >>Or another way: "It features an 16-bit auxiliary data bus". > > >True enough. But if the subject of interest is the auxiliary bus rather > than the "it" that >features the auxiliary bus, I'd argue that the bus deserves to be the > subject of the sentence. >Keeping the topic in the subject rather than the predicate makes for more > powerful, active writing. Well, in the example the subject of interest was the bus. I added a pronoun to make it grammatical. _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
