Many of my very good English-language grammar explanations are disappearing from the web -- ones that I have compiled over the course of my career from people who explained concepts before I even needed to.
So I'm sharing one of my favorite ones now, the wordy words list, which is just as beautiful today as the first time I encountered it.
https://web.uvic.ca/~gkblank/wordiness.html
#Language #Grammar #English
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