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Jan

2017

Un-learning things we were taught

You probably had drilled into you, at school, a number of rules about writing:

· Never split an infinitive.

· Never start a paragraph with “I”.

· Never end a sentence with a preposition.

· Never start a sentence with “And” or “But”.

And you’ve spent most of your adult life trying to conform to those Never-Never rules, even when doing so required a mental hernia.

Those rules never were rules. Every one of the great English writers, the ones who set a model for us, broke those rules.

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