"For a writer...the basest of all things is to be afraid." - William Faulkner

 

The following unit lists a number of words or groups of words which, misused, may cloud our meanings or make our communication imprecise, ineffective, or grammatically incorrect. Because the spoken language employs many of these words or pairs of words incorrectly, we get used to hearing them and aren't even aware that these monsters lurk nearby!

Problems with style and other ghostly errors abound in imprecise writing.