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William Strunk Jr.

The Elements of Style

The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. It originally detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, and "a few matters of form" as well as a list of commonly misused words and expressions. Updated editions of the paperback book are often required reading for American high school and college composition classes.
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    A nice guide, read it when I started a job in technical writing.

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  • Loihas quoted9 months ago
    In the names of business firms the last comma is omitted, as

    Brown, Shipley and Company

    The abbreviation etc.,
  • Loihas quoted9 months ago
    Exceptions are the possessives of ancient proper names in -es and -is, the possessive Jesus' , and such forms as for conscience' sake, for righteousness' sake. But such forms as Achilles' heel, Moses' laws, Isis' temple are commonly replaced by

    the heel of Achilles

    the laws of Moses

    the temple of Isis

    The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and oneself have no apostrophe.
  • Света Котинаhas quotedlast year
    he abbreviation etc., even if only a single term comes before it, is always preceded by a comma.

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