Excerpt from The Mechanics of Writing
IN order to write English in a way that befits an educated person, one must know a certain body of rules. The term rules is here used in a wide sense, including not only gen eral precepts, such as the dictum that in a sentence every part should be subservient to one principal affirmation, but also those numerous particular precepts which refuse to merge themselves into convenient generalizations - for instance, those to the effect that it is bad English to say I devote my evenings in study for I devote my even oings to study, that the verb except should not be used in the sense of accept, nor the noun principle in the sense of the adjective principal, and that all right should be written as two words, the first spelled with two i's. When I say that one must know these rules, I mean that one must not merely be acquainted with them, but habitually observe them.
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