Style

I am just now reading The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White. I wonder, after having this long-standing love affair with words and phrases and clauses and sentences and paragraphs, how I never knew enough to actually read this book.

It seems I thought I didn't need to read it, expert that I am in the mechanics of the written word. Not so. Chock full of examples of such terms as participial phrases, pronominal possessives, and adjectival modifiers, it is every language lover's dream come true.

I think it ought to be required reading for every speaker and writer of the English language.