While copyediting, I often find that complex sentences can be easily clarified by rearranging a few words. Because people often write as a stream-of-consciousn

While copyediting, I often find that complex sentences can be easily clarified by rearranging a few words. Because people often write as a stream-of-consciousness, and they'll begin a phrase, insert some explanatory phrase, and then finish the original thought, where now words are disconnected and make little sense. This is, of course, peculiar to English, because if you're working in a language with declensions and many conjugations, word order may be less important, and word order itself is often an artistic element.