- Everyone with imperfect past should shy from using past perfect.
- If voice is the sound produced by the vocal organs of a vertebrate, especially a human being, how can a transitive verb be in either active or passive voice.
- Having endowed verbs with a voice, we should not be surprised they also possess a mood.
- The best way to locate squinting modifiers in a paper is to hold it close to a mirror and watch for commotion.
- Since to dangle means to hang loosely and swing or sway to and fro, a book lying quietly on a desk may be assumed not to contain instances of dangling modifiers.
- J.A.W.Heffernan and J.E.Lincoln, Writing. A College Handbook., 2nd ed., W.W.Norton & Co., NY, 1982
- The American Heritage Dictionary
Language of Mathematics, Language of Science and Plain Language
- Mathematics as a Language
- Evolution of Algebraic Symbolism
- Ambiguities in Plain Language
- Linguistic Terminology
- Life Sciences Terminology
- Language of Physics and Chemistry
- Deliberate Ambiguities
- Math Lingo vs. Plain English
- Mathematics Is a Language
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