Re:E. B. White’s “Plain Style” at 75
by hcrisp on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:04PM
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If you like that kind of thing, also check out "Revising Business Prose" by Lanham. Avoid passive-voice sentences with long prepositional phrases, and instead use action verbs. For example: “The history of the new regulatory provisions is that there is generally an immediate resistance to them.” becomes “People usually resist new regulations.”
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