Previous | Next Modifiers! They're a lark! The more, the better, right? I'm well and truly known to be overwhelmingly, overpoweringly for every and all types of sentence modifiers, be they adverbs, clauses, or phrases--nothing's as crunchy, as meaningful as a bad guy in a book described as "evilly chewing his lip", say, or a... Continue Reading →
Previous || Next There is a difference between "Someone stole the priest's thing!" and "The abbot's lover absconded with his most prized Bible!" and that difference is owed to word choice. The more exact the words you make use of, the better. Words are the writer's tools; you'll want to avoid those with a blunted... Continue Reading →
Previous || Next Few elements of style can harm your work the way an overbusy, cluttered sentence can. But reading about cluttered sentences from a theoretical standpoint is one thing -- seeing one such sentence is entirely different. Let's construct a glorious Example: My ratonnastick, being a perfectly good fellow at heart who always knew... Continue Reading →
Previous|| Next This series of posts owes a lot to, and borrows from, June Casagrande’s book on sentence style, It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences. Today, we shall delve in the deepest recesses of the earth, and talk about the abusive step-father of all writers, Grammar Proper. And what's more... Continue Reading →
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