How to bust ghost verbs.

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Ghost verbs invade business, academic and government writing to obscure meaning and waste words. We bust them!

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‘Discussion’ is a ghostly form of the verb ‘discuss’.
So, if I said: ‘We will hold a discussion on it soon’, you’d have to do some
thinking.
Why? Because ‘hold’ means nothing, so you flip to ‘discussion’ and change
it to the living verb ‘discuss’ for sentence meaning. What a waste of time!
‘We will discuss it soon’ is what I should have said.
That is the most efficient way: fewer words and quicker meaning.
www.arosact.biz

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How to bust ghost verbs.

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2. ‘Discussion’ is a ghostly form of the verb ‘discuss’. So, if I said: ‘We will hold a discussion on it soon’, you’d have to do some thinking. Why? Because ‘hold’ means nothing, so you flip to ‘discussion’ and change it to the living verb ‘discuss’ for sentence meaning. What a waste of time! ‘We will discuss it soon’ is what I should have said. That is the most efficient way: fewer words and quicker meaning. www.arosact.biz