This is an excellent comment thank you. You put into words some of my unconscious inklings. Is there any reading you can recommend on the topic that isn’t a dry

This is an excellent comment thank you. You put into words some of my unconscious inklings. Is there any reading you can recommend on the topic that isn’t a dry grammar manual — something akin to Strunk and White, or a good blog? If not I suppose you could write one :)