I had a professor in college who was notorious for his list of 40-something rules for grammar. He would take off a point from your paper for every instance in which you…
grammar and style
Our most read Leff insights and blog posts: 2022
Leff has published a lot of content this year—55 internal posts at the time of…
The sturdy nail: In celebration of semicolons
Preachy blog posts, smug tweets, and groaning students all share in their disdain for the…
Dangling modifiers and the comedy of grammatical errors
Given the complexity of language, it’s impossible to score one hundred on the test. Wires…
The Leff blog starter pack: Our most-read posts of all time
Leff has been at this content marketing racket for more than a decade now. In…
Phrases and clauses: The keys to seamless writing
Writers and readers alike have long fixated on word choice. To paraphrase Mark Twain, we…
Hemingway, Faulkner, and the fear of looking silly
People who edit for a living often end up down obscure grammatical rabbit holes, passionately…
Of word-hoards and whale-roads: The power of a well-chosen phrase
The English language is a millennium and a half in the making, with roots to…
Our most read Leff insights and blog posts: 2021
By all accounts, 2021 was a banner year for Leff. Doubling in size is no…
We don’t get no respect: The scourge of misspelled names
Call me Allan. Yeah, Allan. That’s A_L_L_A_N. Not Alan. Not Allen. Not Allyn. I’ve spent…