Reference #66: The Elements of Style

Don't qualify your sentences with unnecessary auxiliaries or conditionals. That is, strive to omit "would", "should", "could", "may", "might", and "can". Your writing will lack authority if each sentence is couched in doubt.

The exception for this is in situations with real uncertainty.


Strunk, White. The Elements of Style, 2000. (20)

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