Thanks a lot for you encouraging promise, Daphne. You have made me happy. The example that I gave was particularly problematic to me. It is not clear to me until now. Kindly take care of that too. Happy weekend.

OK, I will try to do a column on antecedents fairly shortly. The bigger challenge, I find, is not so much with examples such as the one you give above. Many people write things like: “This is important because….” but they don’t make it clear what the “this” represents. Anyways, I’ll try to tackle this issue shortly.

Thank you so much for you examples, dear Daphne. I am very much interested in making sure all my antecedents are clear. For example, “The actor met the politician at his house”. It was not clear whether it was the actor’s or the politician’s house. Looking forward to you shedding some light on this issue. Despite reading the grammar book ‘The Transitive Vampire’ as suggested by you, I am not able to get through this seemingly easier task. Requesting your help in this regard. Thanks a lot in advance.

Ah, now I get it! Here are a few examples: (1) resolve to reduce your average sentence length , (2) plan to use more figurative language, (3) make sure all your antecedents are clear. Those are just three ideas to get you started.

Crating a new writing-related challenge is one of your tips. So, we would like to know the various writing-related challenges. Thank you so much for considering my request.

I’m sorry but I don’t understand your suggestion/request, Jagadish. Could you please email me privately to explain it? Thanks!

Yes, people don’t often realize that working too HARD on a piece of writing can be just as dangerous as not working enough on it.

Now fixed. Thanks so much, Russ. This column has been posted for more than three years now. It astonishes me that no one else had caught this (least of all, me!)