Applying the principles
Read exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Question
- Which follows 'use the active voice'?
- Choices
- She wrote the report
- The report was written by her
- The report, written by her
- Correct choice
- She wrote the report
- Question
- Which follows 'put statements in positive form'?
- Choices
- He did not remember
- He forgot
- He was not able to recall
- Correct choice
- He forgot
- Question
- Which follows 'omit needless words'?
- Choices
- due to the fact that
- owing to the fact that
- because
- Correct choice
- because
- Question
- Where do the emphatic words belong?
- Choices
- at the end
- at the start
- in the middle
- Correct choice
- at the end
Choosing the better sentence, and naming why. Source: The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. (1918), public domain.