When you read a sentence, the part you are most likely to remember is the ending. This part of the sentence should move the writing forward by providing new information, as it does in the following example:

Employers today expect college graduates to have excellent writing skills.

A less emphatic but still important position in a sentence is the opening, which often connects the new sentence with what has come before.

Today’s employers want a college-educated workforce that can communicate well. Excellent writing skills are high on the list of qualifications.

If you place relatively unimportant information in the memorable closing position of a sentence, you may undercut what you want to emphasize or give more emphasis to the closing words than you intend.

Moving $500,000 to the end of the sentence emphasizes the amount.

Using climactic order to emphasize important ideas

When you arrange ideas in order of increasing importance, power, or drama, your writing builds to a climax. By saving its most dramatic item for last, the following sentence makes its point forcefully and memorably:

After they’ve finished with the pantry, the medicine cabinet, and the attic, [neat people] will throw out the red geranium (too many leaves), sell the dog (too many fleas), and send the children off to boarding school (too many scuffmarks on the hardwood floors).

– Susanne Britt, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People”

The original version of the next sentence fails to achieve strong emphasis because its verbs are not sequenced in order of increasing power; the editing provides climactic order.