When you read more, you learn a lot more words and a lot better sentence structure and it helps to develop your own style.

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On the subject of style, Mr Bellos explains how it came to mean something other than the indispensable attributes of a gentleman and how literary style became contained within the structure of a sentence.

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It was virtually a career-ending sentence which Shostakovich only averted by a painful adjustment of his style.

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