Verbs are doing words so you should aim to make the verbs in your writing work hard. Avoid lifeless verbs that will kill your sentence. Again, we come back to the verb 'to be'; sentences built on to be are usually unwieldy. With lifeless verbs you will usually find an excess of nouns, which slows the pace of your work down. Look at the phrases in your work and see if one word will do the same job. For instance:
prefer is better than a preference for;
tends to sounds infinitely better than has a tendency to.
The stronger your verbs, the stronger your work will be.
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