\4*t ' HOW TO EDIT YOUR OWN WRITING Claire Kehrwald Cook Houghton Mifflin Company ã Boston â 1985 by The Modern Language Association of America All rights reserved No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the Publisher Requests for permission should be addressed in writing to Houghton Mifflin Company One Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108 Indexed by Philip James Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Cook, Claire Kehrwald The MLA's Line by line Bibliography: p Includes index English language—Sentences Copy-reading I Modern Language Association of America II Title III Title: Line by line PE1441.C66 1985 808'.042 85-8346 ISBN 0-395-38944-5 ISBN 0-395-39391-4 (pbk.) Manufactured in the United States of America to &êtty Cfilc Guiding Genius for a Generation of Copy Editors Qù4 A Glossary of Questionable Usage Selected Bibliography Index 209 207 161 ... master them, you can more to improve your writing than anyone else can To use an editor''s techniques, you need, first of all, an editor''s knowledge of sentence structure The line- by -line editor... Data Cook, Claire Kehrwald The MLA''s Line by line Bibliography: p Includes index English language—Sentences Copy-reading I Modern Language Association of America II Title III Title: Line by line. .. professional copy editors, they have little bearing on how sentences work Two appendixes supplement the text The first describes the parts of a sentence and the ways they fit together? ?the fundamentals