ABSTRACT
Style may be regarded as a distinctive method of writing or speaking. It thus involves selection from all the available options in a language. The selection may include choice of vocabulary (calculation, estimation, sums, tally), phrase (absolutely delighted, as pleased as Punch, over the moon, very pleased), sentence structure (simple, compound, complex, active or passive) as well as imagery, punctuation and rhetorical devices. Indeed, any linguistic choice is inevitably a stylistic choice since it affects the style of an utterance or a passage.
