The trend of good writing is toward underpunctuation. Or, rather, if writing needs an array of marks, like an assortment of golf clubs, it is a sign that the writer’s method is becoming too involved.

The few elephants that remained continued to overbrowse the trees, now ripping the bark off them as well and speeding their demise.

“Whisht! whisht!” said Fogarty. “Mr. Fin is a real gentleman every inch of him, and sometimes touchy with strangers—carries a brace of pops, as he calls them, in his big coat hindpockets, ready loaded—can snuff a candle across his own lawn, […]

The first-year English Literature module consists of three submodules.