Chapter 8 of Good With Words (“Clarity and Coherence”) uses a visual aid to communicate the overlap you want to shoot for between sentences. Identify it.

The following paragraph appears in both the readings and the classroom clips:

“If your sentences _______, chances are your ideas will ____. If your ideas______, people are much more likely to understand you. And if people understand you, they are much more likely to be persuaded by you.”

The same word goes in each of those three blanks. What is it?