Sentence examples for myself clear from inspiring English sources
Do I Make Myself Clear?, by Harold Evans (Little, Brown).
The prose throughout "Do I Make Myself Clear?" evokes the battlefield as well.
"Just today alone, I've read three or four instances of the word 'advocate' being used incorrectly!" Evans, at eighty-eight, has published "Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters" — a polemic and style guide about our ever-growing need for concise, understandable prose.
"Do I Make Myself Clear?" focusses on the usual suspects tackled by Strunk & White in "Elements of Style," or — more important to Evans — George Orwell: avoid the passive voice; eliminate redundancies; watch your pronouns; don't succumb to monologophobia (i.e., it's usually fine to repeat a word).
Have I made myself clear?
I returned to Europe, to the cities I had been to before, rewriting my drunken travel history and giving myself clear-eyed recollections.
"I did everything myself: clearing the dead trees away, bringing the dirt in, building the walls and, finally, all the planting," Mr. Warnke said.
We worked day and night for many days installing and commissioning MkII to the deadline given to us of June 1, and my colleague Norman Thurlow and myself cleared the last faults early on that day.
However, perhaps I should make myself clearer on what I did mean.
I immediately reorganized myself, cleared my air, and woke my inner army to full attention and readied myself for attack.
