Every sentence/paragraph/story is different. OK… I’m stepping off my soapbox :-) We should all write the way we want to write. Don’t tell me to write by numbers… the English language is too beautiful for that. And you know? No one has read my private works, and they will never, but I love to write. The beauty of the written language is… if you don’t agree with me… I don’t care! I will write exactly how I want to write. Let the author, the artist, paint by words how they want to paint. (I don’t know if it’s just me, but those “painting by numbers” are kinda… umm, ugly?) The English language is beautiful… and to tell people they cannot use this expression is like, maybe, sorta like telling people they need to paint those paintings “by the number”. You can argue all you want about how streamlined it is… but that really doesn’t matter.
If the author of a book, letter, communication uses “me in and of itself”, then God bless them! (whoops, I’m agnostic). I was just writing a letter to a friend of infinite years (creative license), but he’s my best friend, and I just wrote “which worries me in and of itself” for something that is not important to the reader of this post… and I thought, “why did I just automatically write that phrase? I never use it… but it was perfect for this letter I was writing, and I’m not sure why.” So, I looked it up, found this forum, and decided it was the perfect thing to say. Being a public school teacher for 19 or so years (that can mean ANYTHING people, that is not a badge of honor- I do not post this to profess an expertise off the English language, hell, I used to say I had eaten the taco quickly! Boy, I paid hell for that and have never forgotten it.
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