At times we read something that doesn't make sense to us, or we write something ourselves, thinking "That's not what I meant so say" or "This doesn't sound right". Chances are that the writing isn't clearly focused on the subject or topic. Your readers will more easily understand your ideas if you focus them clearly, and it's really not so hard to do.
Often clear focus in writing depends on clearly - focused sentence subjects.
Content Words
It isn't surprising that content words are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sometimes adverbs. Those are the words that help us form a picture in our head; they give us the contents of our story and tell our listener where to focus his or her attention. We want our listener to be able to quickly grasp the main content of our story, so we make the content words easier to hear by bringing attention to them with added stress.
From: http://www.pronuncian.com/Lessons/Default.aspx?Lesson=58
Often clear focus in writing depends on clearly - focused sentence subjects.
Content Words
It isn't surprising that content words are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sometimes adverbs. Those are the words that help us form a picture in our head; they give us the contents of our story and tell our listener where to focus his or her attention. We want our listener to be able to quickly grasp the main content of our story, so we make the content words easier to hear by bringing attention to them with added stress.
| Category | Description | Examples |
| nouns | people, places, things, and ideas | Patty, Seattle, cars, happiness |
| main verbs | verbs without auxilliaries | ran, swim, thinks |
| adjectives | words that describe nouns | red, soft, careful |
| adverbs (except adverbs of frequency) | words that describe nouns | calmly, quickly, carefully |
| question words | words that denote a question | who, what, where, when, why |
| negatives | words that negate | not, never |
From: http://www.pronuncian.com/Lessons/Default.aspx?Lesson=58
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