Overstuffed Sentences

Rules of style and grammar from the New York Times.

The phrase “the fact that” is often a warning of complications to come — it suggests that the writer hasn’t found the clearest, simplest path to convey the idea.

Pare down sentences.

Separating the verb from the object by not one but two prepositional phrases made it sound as though we were translating from Latin.

in most cases, the adverb should be adjacent to the word it modifies.

‘More Than’ vs. ‘Over’