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David Mitchell • The Bone Clocks: A Novel
officious
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
Bryan A. Garner’s Garner’s Modern English Usage, also known to many in the editing world as the bible
Emmy J. Favilla • A World Without "Whom"
Perec urged his readers to ‘question your teaspoons’.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
‘the new dead-meat market’
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
Rule 38 was compiled with assistance from Grammar Monster (http://grammar-monster.com) and from Mignon Fogarty's Quick and Dirty Tips (www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl). Both are excellent resources if you are looking for more grammar advice.
Ann Handley • Everybody Writes
the earliest epigrams – the earliest sentences – were epitaphs, marking a death. A good sentence on a bleak theme can be oddly cheering.