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This sentence is from today's Windows Club newsletter ...
Quote: Grammar skills are very important for effective communication as it provides structure to your sentence and make it more readable and understandable.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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 I would hope that English is not the native tongue of the author.
Such crimes against the noble English tongue, the language of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and many others, should be punished by a horsewhipping at the very least.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Apart from 'as they' do you see anything else wrong?
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Instead of:
Grammar skills are very important for effective communication as it provides structure to your sentence and make it more readable and understandable.
I would rewrite it as:
Grammar skills are very important for effective communication - providing structure to a sentence, making it more readable and understandable.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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You could reword it any number of ways, but its not wrong (except for the mistake of using 'as it' when a plural is being referred to).
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Probably author uses Word...It has no problem with the grammar of this sentence...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Too a certain extinct, I write code good to.
modified 10-Jan-16 14:07pm.
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No structure is also a structure 
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And I'm in shape - round is a shape, isn't it?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Women call it curvy 
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All structures are also structures. Do I assume correctly that you meant; "No structure" is also a structure? 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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This is the sort of language up with which we should not put!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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First snows of winter ... they said. Jack Frost nipping at your toes ... they said. What do we get? Thunderstorms! More torrential rain, followed by teeming rain, with a side serving of inundation, and a dessert of scaturience! 
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We have the same - it's now been over ten weeks since we last had a day without rain...
I daren't walk across the garden - I'll sink to Oz before I got half way!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Over ten weeks?!?!?
If we have 10 hours of continuous rain, people would cut their own throats...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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We had a slight frost here this morning. But that was soon washed away by the rain.
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Winter 2015[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Shortly before 11 at night and I've just taken the dog for a walk in shorts and T-shirt (me, not the dog).
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: (me, not the dog)
spoilsport - I had a picture in my mind until I saw that
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To draw a friggin straight line in Visio!?
Answer: IT's FRIGGIN IMPOSSIBLE!!! 
Trying to create a simple sequence diagram.
It's taking me ages to get a simple straight message line between two object lifelines...
The lifelines have connector points, but they're not aligned in a straight line.
When I finally DO have them aligned the next line will have the same problem and aligning that will mess up the first line 
VISIO, Y U DO DIS!?
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I think if you hold down the shift key while drawing, a line, you will get a horizontal or vertical line.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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That does the trick, but unfortunately it doesn't connect to the activation box that way...
Ah well, it beats having unaligned lines
Thanks! 
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I'm glad you have this problem. At least I'm not the only one now.
At one time I used these stencils[^] to avoid the maleficence of Visio's built-in UML, not sure whether they are still any good.
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I actually only work with Visio (or any diagramming tool) unless I absolutely have to.
I'm a true developer, i.e. I hate documentation! 
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Wouldn't it be easier to get a piece of paper, pencil, and a straight-edge? You could be done with it already!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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