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
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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.
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