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1 " I love you. You are the object of my affection and the object of my sentence. "
― Mignon Fogarty , Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
2 " ...passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb. "
3 " I’ve read long, contorted arguments from noted grammarians about why it’s OK to end sentences with prepositions when the prepositions aren’t extraneous, but the driving point still seems to be that nobody in their right mind talks this way. Yes, you could say, “On what did you step?” but not even grammarians think you should. "
4 " I consider it my calling to dispel the myth that it’s against the rules to split infinitives. It "