Revise. Tenure here depends not upon the quality of fur in your coat but upon the quality of your thinking apparatus.
527. Make the most vivid verb in a sentence the predicate.
Dull. He was found circling a piece of furniture in the center of the room.
Lively. When found he was circling a piece of furniture in the center of the room.
Revise. They went home, stumbling from one side of the street to the other.
528. Use the active voice rather than the passive.
Spiritless. The glucose was heated and then applied to the blindfolded freshmen.
Stirring. The sophomores heated the glucose and applied it to the blindfolded freshmen.
Revise. The article appearing in the Firing Line column last Sunday above my name was not written by me.