Strunk and White or Zinsser can help people to improve their writing for emails or reports at work, but both contain a lot of information that simply isn't true

Strunk and White or Zinsser can help people to improve their writing for emails or reports at work, but both contain a lot of information that simply isn't true. As someone who writes for a living, nothing gets my goat more than a client asking me to remove the passive clauses in the 10,000-word ebook I've just written for them because they read that passives are bad in Strunk and White, or they pasted the text into Grammarly and got some squiggly lines. There are some style books that offer advice that is both useful and true. - Sense of Style, by Steven Pinker - Artful Sentences: Syntax As Style, by Virginia Tufte - Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose, by Francis-Noel Thomas and Mark Turner If people really want to know what's what where grammar is concerned, they should look at "A Student's Introduction to English Grammar" by Huddleston and Pullum. Or, even better "The Cambridge Grammar of English" by the same authors (although at 1800 pages, it's not for the faint of heart).