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Learn to write clear and accurate prose with William Strunk’s definitive English style guide. This little book, originally circulated amongst Strunk’s students at Cornell, has become a desktop stalwart of engineers, managers, students, pastors, and writers of every variety. Strunk’s seven rules of usage and 11 principles of composition have been creating clear communicators for almost a century.

The antithesis of negative and positive is strong: Not charity, but simple justice. Not that I loved Caesar less, but Rome the more. Negative words other than not are usually strong: The sun never sets upon the British flag. Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract. A period of unfavorable weather set in. It rained every day for a week. He showed satisfaction as he took possession of his well-earned reward.
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