Showing posts with label "The Elements of Style". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "The Elements of Style". Show all posts

Friday, October 10, 2014

Rule 10

Found in storage a 1965 Elements of Style in which "Use the active voice." is number 10 not 14 as in my 2000 Fourth Edition.

What changed?

Elementary Rules of Usage forms Part I. Part II, Elementary Principles of Composition,  continues the numbering from Part I. Part I had four less rules in 1965. Life just keep getting more complicated.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Rule # 14

Rule # 14 in The Elements of Style by Strunk and White: "Use the active voice."