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This process forms large-scale convective, cold, and mixed phase cumulonimiform clouds, catalysing cyclogenesis—for example, as described by the Norwegian Cyclone Model—and produces intense precipitation—for example, hail and thunderstorms—by Bergeron processes.
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Broadly speaking, my advice is that you should avoid using dashes, as they can quickly make a sentence confusing and can also irritate your readers, I assume the dashes identify parenthetical information. If I remove that information, I am left with this This process forms large-scale convective, cold, and mixed phase cumulonimiform clouds, catalysing cyclogenesis and produces intense precipitation by Bergeron processes. Is this what you want to say as your basic sentence?
- Broadly speaking, my advice is that you should avoid using dashes, as they can quickly make a sentence confusing and can also irritate your readers, I assume the dashes identify parenthetical information.
- If I remove that information, I am left with this This process forms large-scale convective, cold, and mixed phase cumulonimiform clouds, catalysing cyclogenesis and produces intense precipitation by Bergeron processes.
- Is this what you want to say as your basic sentence?
- The phrase catalysing cyclogenesis does not seem to fit with correct grammar.
- Clive
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Broadly speaking, my advice is that you should avoid using dashes, as they can quickly make a sentence confusing and can also irritate your readers,
I assume the dashes identify parenthetical information. If I remove that information, I am left with this
This process forms large-scale convective, cold, and mixed phase cumulonimiform clouds, catalysing cyclogenesis and produces
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