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Strunk & White devote a lot of time to misrepresenting grammar and presenting rules that don't mean much. Both of these distract an author from writing with irrelevant questions of passive voices and adjectives.

Pullum points out how silly most of the book is in this article: http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...

A better respected book that wastes less time is Joseph William's Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace.

A short review, with some excerpts: http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/Reviews/williams.h...