Strunk & White's The Elements of Style turns 50 today. That's 50 years of short, sweet, logical grammar rules. Thank you!Just a few rules Strunk & White graced us with are:
1. Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's. Follow this rule whatever the final consonant. Thus write, Charles's friend, etc. (English teachers: You've had 50 years to get caught up with this. Please stop teaching our children to write Chris'!)
2. Logic suggests that [Junior when following a name] is, in fact, restrictive and therefore not in need of a comma: James Wright Jr. (Hallmark, can we please take the comma out of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day now?)
3. Omit needless words. (Enough said.)
Cheers to 50 years with Strunk & White, and here's to 50 more (before those pesky grammar rules change again)!
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