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active voice adjective adventures adverbs antecedent Approach to Style become better chapter clarity clause introduced colloquial comma concise conjunction construction corrected by rearranging device dialogue E. B. White Elements of Style emphatic English examples exclamation EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY MISUSED fact follow give grammar hold independent clause king of Scotland language lefthand Literally little book loose sentences means ment nature negative Nether Stowey never nonrestrictive nouns and verbs Omit needless words paragraph parenthetic expressions periodic sentence person phrase poems possessive preposition principles of composition Professor Strunk pronoun prose punctuation question quotation marks reader refer relative clause Reminder revised rhetorical romances are entertaining rules of usage semicolon sense simply single sometimes soulwise speech split infinitive statement story student suitable design tangledly tell tence tense tion unnecessary usually vague Willa Cather William Henry Harrison William Strunk Write with nouns young writer