Last week’s discussion emphasized that to achieve truly good writing in English, we should aim for parallelism every time we make statements that present several grammar elements in a series. Elements ...

Let me begin this discussion by pointing out that good writing doesn’t simply depend on the richness and persuasiveness of ideas nor on grammatical correctness, but also on our skill in setting ...

A dangling expression is one that doesn’t fit logically into the rest of the sentence. It “dangles” — often because it’s a verb phrase in search of a subject which never turns up. Consider these ...

“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what happened here.” Changing just a few words in this memorable sentence from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg ...