sensitive editing + finishing touches = clear expression

I n this post, we'll see examples of how to handle "not only ... but also" constructions correctly by using a simple bracketing technique...

My brother and I had finished two-thirds of this excellent whisky when he came down from the United States. After he left, it fell upon...

I had not heard of Vajesinh Pargi; not many have. Someone had put up a meme, a few lines from one of Vajesinh's poems, on her Facebook...

On page 48 of The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker talks about how stale idioms and metaphors deaden thought: "When a reader is forced to...