No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them. - Wilson Follett
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
- Wilson Follett
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency. - Wilson Follett
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words. - Wilson Follett
It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. - Wilson Follett
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together. - Wilson Follett
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish. - Wilson Follett
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
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