Sure, it’s scary to send your writing to a literary agent. But pity the poor agent who must wade through hundreds of terrible query letters a week! One of them shares excerpts from those hilariously bad query letters on a blog called SlushPile...
Mallory in Minneapolis wonders about her father’s all’s, as in all’s you have to do. That final s isn’t a plural tacked onto all, but likely the remnant of an older contraction, from all as, with the sense of all that. The related form alst points...

