These are rules as much as many others are. You won't go to jail or be a literary outcast, so you're right, like ALL grammar rules, you can break them. That's

These are rules as much as many others are. You won't go to jail or be a literary outcast, so you're right, like ALL grammar rules, you can break them. That's why the critique of S&W the other day didn't make any sense. S&W is a book on style.