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How This Style Works: Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber

How This Style Works: Lesser Ruins by Mark Haber What that synopsis doesn’t reveal is how hysterically funny this book […]

How This Style Works: Peter’s Troubled Interiors in Intermezzo by Sally Rooney Twenty-two-year-old Ivan, a chess prodigy, was closer to

Part 3. In Praise of the Passive Voice: Where to Use It and How to Explain Your Choices This is

Part 2. In Praise of the Passive Voice: Ergatives and Other Commonly Accused Verb Phrases This is the second post

Part 1. In Praise of the Passive Voice: Effacing the Subject to Showcase the Object This is the first of

Spike That Comma: When to Mess with a Compound Predicate These are the commas that come between a subject and

Stressing Out: Using It-Clefts for Argumentative Emphasis On the page, however, intonation and mannerisms can leave us wanting. But fear

Predicate Swapping: Let’s Get Weird Of course, barring an unwieldy subject, most of a sentence takes place in the predicate,