Sentence Structure Course: Get Ratioed

How Many Verbs You Should Be Using

In the course, we've been focusing on verbs. But how many verbs should you be using? Well, I've analyzed many of the best writers and figured out that all the best ones have an identical verb-to-sentence ratio. Figuring out how many verbs you use per sentence is an analytical way (obviously not perfect) to assess the strength of your writing.

There are exceptions and outliers to this rule. But, in general, most of the best authors, when they turn up the stylistic heat, write at over a 2.0 verb-to-sentence ratio.

FYI: Your verb ratio doesn’t matter when writing dialogue, transition scenes, and other slower parts of your story.

This lesson is for when you want to write beautifully.