technical level — the kind of thing you’d study in a graduate course on the structure of English — it is filled with persuasive observations and advice. Here’s a paragraph about short sentences: Ideas ...

ARE there any hard-and-fast rules on the length of English-language sentences? Herman Melville begins his classic whaling novel "Moby Dick" with only three words: "Call me Ishmael." Vladimir Nabokov, ...

Confused yet? Keep reading to find out what these strange-sounding but perfectly grammatical garden path sentences are saying. Besides sounding like a rejected Ernest Hemingway title, this deceptive ...