Spot the one that does not belong
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- Questions
- Items
- Use the active voice
- Use long sentences
- Omit needless words
- Odd item
- Use long sentences
- Items
- Possessive singular
- Parenthetic commas
- Topic sentence
- Odd item
- Topic sentence
- Items
- Vary the tense freely in summaries
- Keep related words together
- Express co-ordinate ideas alike
- Odd item
- Vary the tense freely in summaries
One item in each group is not one of the rules. Source: The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. (1918), public domain.