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Edwin Abbott

How to Write Clearly / Rules and Exercises on English Composition

  • Kez Kezhas quoted4 years ago
    There is scarcely any better training, rhetorical as well as logical, than the task of construing Thucydides into genuine English; but the flat, vague, long-winded Greek-English and Latin-English imposture that is often tolerated in our examinations and is allowed to pass current for genuine English, diminishes instead of increasing the power that our pupils should possess over their native language.
  • Аня Касаткинаhas quoted2 years ago
    Do not use "and which" for "which."
  • Аня Касаткинаhas quoted2 years ago
    Writing clearly does not imply thinking clearly
  • Re Cahas quoted2 years ago
    "Certain" is often used for "some,"
  • Re Cahas quoted2 years ago
    "that" depends upon "so" or "statement."
  • Re Cahas quoted2 years ago
    "I do not see them both—I see only one of them."
  • Re Cahas quoted2 years ago
    "You say you don't want both butter and honey—you want butter or honey; I, on the contrary, do not want butter or honey—I want them both."
  • Re Cahas quoted2 years ago
    not ought to be separated from intend
  • Re Cahas quoted2 years ago
    Use "every" or "a single
  • Kez Kezhas quoted4 years ago
    The art of writing forcibly is, of course, a valuable acquisition—almost as valuable as the art of writing clearly. But forcible expression is not, like clear expression, a mere question of mechanism and of the manipulation of words; it is a much higher power, and implies much more.

    Writing clearly does not imply thinking clearly.
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