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REQUIRED READING
Tabucanons Legal Writing
Chapter XIII Grammar and
Usage
Chapter VI The Active Voice
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Grammar
1. rules for language: the system of rules
Grammar
3. quality of language: the spoken or written
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Syntax
1. organization of words in sentences:
Syntax
3. rules of syntax: an exposition of or set of
Syntax
5. rules for deriving logical formulas:
ACTIVE VOICE
sentence pattern: a person or
PERFORME
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The law
student
completed the
difficult exam.
ACTION
student compl
eted
TIME
past
Mrs. Smith
sings in the
church choir
each Sunday.
Mrs.
Smith
sings presen
t
The plane
raced across
the sky.
plane
raced
past
They
Will
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and me.
The tortfeasor, the court found, was he.
We judges are to decide real cases, not
hypothetical ones.
Assign this case to whoever needs
more work.
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judges immediate
audience are his
colleagues who sat with
him when an appeal was
argued.
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CONCLUSION
The obscurity of legal English
has grown out of legal
tradition as a by-product of
traditionally entrenched
concepts.
Legal writing in plain English is
promoted and subject to
modern day reforms.
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