Writing instructors often advise that writers place subjects and verbs as close together as possible. Which of the following explains the reasoning behind this advice?

a) It places fewer demands on working memory
b) It uses a given-new strategy.
c) It takes advantage of syntactic priming.
d) It uses syntactic frames.


A

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