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> But you should be aware of the rules of grammar at
> all times and break them knowingly, not just out
> of ignorance.
When I hear of a rule being broken for the sake of clarity,
I find that most of the time it was never a rule in the first
place. Sentence fragments? Nothing wrong with them. Passive
voice? It has never been forbidden.
Other times, a grammatically proper sentence would have been
as clear or clearer but the writer was too lazy to achieve one.
About the only rule I'm accustomed to seeing broken for
good cause is the unpluralizability of the attributive
noun. We would never speak of a "sardines sandwich" but
in technical writing we speak all the time of "parts lists"
and such.
Mark L. Levinson
Herzliya, Israel
nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il
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