What are some sentence and grammar hacks that can make people more effective writers? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...

That’s a lesson that, according to a Twitter post, a teacher recently passed on to a child. In context, the lesson seems a little less atrocious: The teacher was talking about the first sentence in a ...

In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

Timothy Ferris, in The Science of Liberty: In 1900 there was not a single liberal democracy in the world (since none yet had universal suffrage); by 1950 there were twenty-two. Tyler Cowen at Marginal ...

People will advise you to write all sorts of sentences. Snappy sentences, lyrical sentences, Hemingway-esque short sentences, long Faulknerian sentences. But there’s really only one kind of sentence ...

The passing of Martin Amis last week is, among other things, a reminder that good sentences matter. For critic Ryan Ruby, Amis “was committed to prose style as the essential feature of literary ...

Where shall/should you/one start/begin? At the start/beginning, of course! You ought always, and in everything you do, to begin a sentence at the beginning. It is simply no good to start in the middle ...