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Spot the one that does not belong

Exercise and reference answers

Questions
  1. Items
    1. Use the active voice
    2. Use long sentences
    3. Omit needless words
    Odd item
    Use long sentences
  2. Items
    1. Possessive singular
    2. Parenthetic commas
    3. Topic sentence
    Odd item
    Topic sentence
  3. Items
    1. Vary the tense freely in summaries
    2. Keep related words together
    3. Express co-ordinate ideas alike
    Odd item
    Vary the tense freely in summaries

Explanation

One item in each group is not one of the rules. Source: The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. (1918), public domain.
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