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“If you can append ‘by zombies’ to the end of a sentence (or, yes, ‘by the clown’), you’ve indeed written a sentence in the passive voice.”
― Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition

“I know that back when you were in seventh-grade typing class and pecking away at your Smith Corona Coronet Automatic 12, Mrs. Tegnell taught you to type a double space after a sentence-ending period, but you are no longer in the seventh grade, you are no longer typing on a typewriter, and Mrs. Tegnell is no longer looking over your shoulder.”
― Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

“A reversal is a total 180.*10 If you do a total 360, you’re facing the same direction as when you began.”
― Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

“Beyond this [checking for spelling, punctuation, and grammar] is where copyediting can elevate itself from what sounds like something a passably sophisticated piece of software should be able to accomplish--it can't, not for style, not for grammar (even if it thinks it can), and not even for spelling (more on spelling, much more on spelling, later)--to true craft. On a good day, it achieves something between a really thorough teeth cleaning--as a writer once described it to me--and a whiz-bang magic act.”
― Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style