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When you are writing a new entry for your blog '''Concrete Language''' will help to make your writing more real to your readers. '''Concrete Language''' names or describes the perceptible and material world; it appeals to or engages the senses. Many concrete words or phrases can be defined by touching, pointing, or acting: sofa, star, swim in the river.
When you are writing a new entry for your blog '''Concrete Language''' will help to make your writing more real to your readers. '''Concrete Language''' names or describes the perceptible and material world; it appeals to or engages the senses. Many concrete words or phrases can be defined by touching, pointing, or acting: sofa, star, swim in the river.


“When you use a lot of words that deal with ideas, concepts, and things that we can’t touch - vague abstract nouns                   
  such as  “invincible”, “emotion”, “existence”, “obscurity”, “consciousness”,  “autonomy”, “despair” and so on, the reader feels a
  sense of distance from your reality.
Abstract comes  from the Latin, meaning “removed from”, or moved from concrete reality. Objects help us to concretize abstract ideas.
We should "stick as much as possible to simple language that’s easy to visualize—concrete verbs like ‘write’ or ‘walk’ beat ambiguous ones like ‘benefit’ and ‘improve’—and avoid the passive tense."
We should "stick as much as possible to simple language that’s easy to visualize—concrete verbs like ‘write’ or ‘walk’ beat ambiguous ones like ‘benefit’ and ‘improve’—and avoid the passive tense."
Objects help us to concretize abstract ideas.
“When you use a lot of words that deal with ideas, concepts, and things that we can’t touch - vague
abstract nouns such as “invincible”, “emotion”, “existence”, “obscurity”, “consciousness”,
“autonomy”, “despair” and so on, the reader feels a sense of distance from your reality. Abstract comes
from the Latin, meaning “removed from”, or moved from concrete reality.


==Consistent Structure==
==Consistent Structure==
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