I’m going to use these three books again for today’s topic, which is the order of words in a sentence.

I love that these books tackle mundane topics, things that seem innate, but aren’t. I mean, we can order words into something grammatical without much thought. Even though a ten-sentence word has ten factorial possible orderings, we can easily find the handful that are legal English.

• The Golden Book on Writing by David Lambuth
• The Elements of Style by Strunk & White
• Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

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