Most of us know good style when we see it. We also know when a sentence seems cumbersome to read. However, though we can easily spot beastly sentences, it is not as easy to say WHY a sentence – especially one that is grammatically correct – isn’t working. We look at the sentence; we see that the commas are in the right places; we find no error to speak of. So why is the sentence so awful? What’s gone wrong?