NCO Primary Leadership Subjects
Emphasis, Continued
If you must qualify or limit your main point, put the qualifier first. This keeps your
Put qualifiers
readers from having to reread the sentence to understand your meaning.
first
Example:
The attack at Salerno would not have succeeded if not supported
WEAK:
by naval gunfire.
If not supported by naval gunfire, the attack at Salerno would not
STRONG:
have succeeded.
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