Fingerpost

Towards more picturesque speech™ Go Premium Some lovely fingerposts yesterday, from UBS’s terms of business. Well done, chaps. George Orwell on plain English | SEC guidance on plain EnglishPlain English Anatomy™ Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverb | Preposition | Conjunction | Latin | Germany | Flannel | Legal triplicate | Nominalisation | Murder your darlings Index: Click ᐅ to expand: Plain English Drafting Metaphor Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Requests? Insults? We’d love to 📧 hear from you. Sign up for our newsletter.

In the sub-clause of a commercial contract, a brief phrase, in bold, at the beginning intended to quickly summarise what the sub-clause is meant to do. The folks at UBS are quite good at these.

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• Plain English - Organise
• Semantic structure