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35 other sections not shown Common terms and phrasesabsurd active voice adjectives adverb Bangalore Bengali Chief Minister clerks clutter commercialese Complete Plain Words convey definite dialogue Dictionary difficult East India Company emphasis emphatic pronoun English-language newspapers English-language press Eric Partridge example excerpt facilities fiction fill find fire first five Flesch flexible syntax Fowler Here’s Hindi idiomatic India’s English-language papers Indian English Indian languages Indlish issue italicised journalists Kannada Karnataka killed Krishna letter literary Victorian English Malayalam mantras meaning meaningless miscreants newspaper reports non-fiction noun office officialese officials Parashuram parenthetic clauses participle party passive voice phrases pidgin plain language Plain Words pleonasm plural prose qualifies question reader redundant regional languages rule S M Krishna sense sentence serve Sir Ernest Gowers sound specific speech story style sub-editors talk Tamil tell thing told translate unidentified unidiomatic vague verb William Zinsser writing written Indian languages Bibliographic information
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