Carolina QuotesNo word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.
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Source
Chapter 2, Why You Don't Find The Answer In Strunk And White, p. 17
- work
- How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)
- year
- 2011
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- p. 17
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