Showing posts with label Elements of Style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elements of Style. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2019

Daily Dose

From The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White

A SENTENCE

"A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts."

From 17. Omit needless words.