By verbing,
Be very worried if your sentence begins with “By any verb ending in -ing.” The odds are about 50/50 you’ll fall into a syntax trap.
The winner:
By justifying the actions of the FBI, Director Comey hopes to assure Americans that their constitutional rights are being respected.
- The opening phrase names an action taken by someone.
- The person who acted immediately follows.
By naming the actor immediately after the action, the author wrote a good sentence.
The loser:
By diminishing our personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
This sentence fails to identify how our privacy is diminished, or by whom. The only apparent subject for the action is “it.” And we have no idea who or what “it” is.
Revise the sentence in a Reply below either by providing an actor for the action, or by eliminating the dangerous “By phrase” altogether.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, the FBI is making it inevitable that American citizens will fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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By allowing personal privacy to be diminished, citizens allow themselves to fall victim to constitutional abuses.
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Original : By diminishing our personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
Revised : By diminishing our personal privacy, Director Comey believes it is only a matter of time until Americans fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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With our personal privacy diminishing, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, the FBI has made us vulnerable to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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It is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuse when our personal privacy diminishes.
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By diminishing his personal privacy, Tom Jones will soon fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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Original: By diminishing our personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
Rewrite: By diminishing our personal privacy, the FBI has created a situation that will soon cause every American to fall victim to constitutional abuse on every scale.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, constitutional abuses on every scale, we will fall victim to.
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It is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale if our personal privacy continues to be diminished.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, the government is turning every American citizen into a victim of constitutional abuse on every scale.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, the FBI are making sure that it is only a matter of time until the people of the United States fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
It’s only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale if we continue to diminish our personal privacy.
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It’s only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale if the NSA continues to diminish our personal privacy.
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We fall victim to constitutional abuses if our privacy continues to diminish.
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It is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale if the FBI keeps diminishing our personal privacy.
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By diminishing his personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until Tom Jones falls victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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Original: By diminishing our personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
Revised: By diminishing our personal privacy, the government is making it so that over time we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, we will eventually fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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It is only a matter of time before Americans will fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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Original: By diminishing our personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
Rewrite: If the FBI continues to diminish our personal property, America will eventually fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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We will fall victims to constitutional abuses if our personal privacy is diminished
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By diminishing our personal privacy, the FBI leaves us vulnerable to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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We will soon fall victim to constitutional abuses if the FBI continues to diminish our personal privacy.
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It is only a matter of time until Americans fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale if the government diminishes our rights.
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There is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses due to the government diminishing our personal privacy.
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We will soon fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale if the government continues to diminish our personal privacy.
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Personal privacy is diminishing and it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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It is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale if our personal privacy continues to be diminished.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, the FBI has made us vulnerable to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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By diminishing our personal privacy,Director Comey believes it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale
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We will fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale if the FBI continues to diminish our personal privacy.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
The loss of personal privacy will eventually result in the abuse of constitutional rights on every scale.
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If our personnal privacy is diminished, we will eventually fall victim to constitutional abuses.
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If the FBI continues to diminish our personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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By diminishing our personal privacy, Comey thinks it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
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We will soon fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale if we continuously allow the FBI to diminish our personal privacy.
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Original: By diminishing our personal privacy, it is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuses on every scale.
Rewrite: It is only a matter of time until we fall victim to constitutional abuse when our personal privacy diminishes.
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When our privacy diminishes, we are bound to fall victim to constitutional abuse.
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