Go Ahead, Break a Few Grammar Rules

English grammar can be strict. But sometimes, you need to break the rules to be a better writer.

Writing is hard. “When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely,” writes Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast (1964). This sentence flouts a few basic grammar rules for grammatical purists, with its simple adjectives, repetitive “and” and lack of a comma after “Paris.”