3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.
William Strunk Jr.The audience, which had at first been indifferent, became more and more interested.
William Strunk Jr.William
William Strunk Jr.Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such entity; it is nondetachable, unfilterable.
William Strunk Jr.The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
William Strunk Jr.This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.
William Strunk Jr.2. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.
William Strunk Jr.the heel of Achilles
William Strunk Jr.Nothing becomes funny by being labelled so.
William Strunk Jr.It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric. When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as well, he will probably do best to follow the rules. After he has learned, by their guidance, to write plain English adequate for everyday uses, let him look, for the secrets of style, to the study of the masters of literature.
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