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“Sentences that bring ideas and images into clearer focus by adding more useful details and explanation are generally more effective than those that are less clearly focused and that offer fewer details.”
― Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
― Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
“This is a book in which we will dance with language, not a book in which we will trudge toward remedial correctness.”
― Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
― Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
“The principle is this: When you write, you make a point not by subtracting as though you sharpened a pencil, but by adding. When you put one word after another, your statement should be more precise the more you add. If the result is otherwise, you have added the wrong thing, or you have added more than was needed. Erskine”
― Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
― Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
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