“The sentence of the year”
A sentence by Ed Yong, writing in The Atlantic about “How to Pandemic Defeated America.”
Long and short
How to arrange pairs and series. A writing tip from Bruce Ross-Larson’s Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone Who Works with Words.
From Verlyn Klinkenborg
From Several Short Sentences About Writing.
Sentences and economics
From Richard Lanham, Revising Prose.
William Maxwell on sentences
“If a good sentence occurs in an otherwise boring paragraph, I cut it out, rubber-cement it to a sheet of typewriter paper, and put it in a folder. It’s just like catching a fish in a creek.”
Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day
On sentence length.
Review: How to Write a Sentence
Adam Haslett’s cover blurb presents the book as a worthy successor to an earlier classroom text: “Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style.” I’d welcome such a book, but How to Write a Sentence is nothing of the sort.
Five sentences about clothes
Other people's homework