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“Only godless savages eschew the series comma.”
― Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
― Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
“he realized that From Cooter to Michael Coble, his purpose as his fallen friend’s sentinel was futile. The world was too harsh and unforgiving, and he, Ahmad, Napoleon James and the residents of Hoptown, armed with optimism, small-caliber firearms, God and their idealistic blockade were insufficient barriers to inevitability. Solidarity, prayer and vengeance were all useless. As always, the strong prevailed, and the weak, the right, and the innocent were slaughtered and forgotten.”
― The Situation in South Carolina: A Novel
― The Situation in South Carolina: A Novel
“A good sentence, I find myself saying frequently, is one that the reader can follow from beginning to end, no matter how long it is, without having to double back in confusion because the writer misused or omitted a key piece of punctuation, chose a vague or misleading pronoun, or in some other way engaged in inadvertent misdirection.”
― Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
― Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
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