You might also notice how much simpler the thought is to understand when it’s broken up into two thoughts. This makes matters easier for the reader, and the reader must always be your main concern; without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void. And it’s no walk in the park being the guy on the receiving end. ‘[Will Strunk] felt the reader was in serious trouble most of the time,’ E. B. White writes in his introduction to The Elements of Style, ‘a man floundering in a swamp, and that it was the duty of anyone trying to write English to drain this swamp quickly and get his
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