... men. The samples
were then frozen and stored in a stainless
steel tank.
In the lefthand version ofthe first example, the reader has no way of knowing whether the
stain was in the center ofthe ... bring the flesh and the blood. The more clearly the writer perceives the
shape, the better are the chances of success.
13. Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
The paragraph is a convenient ... President in 1889.
If the antecedent consists of a group of words, the relative comes at the end ofthe group,
unless this would cause ambiguity.
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the fact that
24
the foreseeable future
59
the truth
is 60
then
, semicolon with 6
there is/are
, substituting 18-19
therefore
, semicolon with 6
they
vs.
he/she
...
thirdly
, misuse of 57
this
, ambiguous reference 61
thrust
61
thus
, semicolon with 6
time, notation of 8
titles (of persons), punctuation of 3
titles (of works) 8, 38
together with
, subjects ... use of 20
modifier(s)
adjectival 12
position of 30-31
most
vs.
almost
53
myself
vs.
I
12
names (of firms), comma in 2
names (of persons) in direct address 3
possessive case of...
... language. They will hear
the beat of new vocabularies, the exciting rhythms of special segments of their society,
each speaking a language of its own. All of us come under the spell of these unsettling ...
passages about the power of words and the clear expression of thoughts and feelings. To
the nuts and bolts of grammar he added a rhetorical dimension.
The editors of this edition have followed ... to another
word in the sentence. She is the leader
of
our group. We opened the door
by
picking the
lock. She went
out
the window.
prepositional phrase A group of words consisting of a...
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8. Avoid the use of qualifiers.
Rather, very, little, pretty
— these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking
the blood of words. The constant use ofthe adjective
little
... than to the mood and temper ofthe author. If the writing is solid and good, the mood
and temper ofthe writer will eventually be revealed and not at the expense ofthe work.
Therefore, the first ... of simplified spelling and
are prepared to take the consequences.
In the original editionof
The Elementsof Style
, there was a chapter on spelling. In it, the
author had this to say:
The...
... one of us knows he is fallible.
Everyone in the community, whether they
are a member ofthe Association or not, is
invited to attend.
Everyone in the community, whether he is a
member ofthe ... brother anticipated the upturn in the
market.
My brother expected the upturn in the
market.
In the second example, the word
anticipated
is ambiguous. It could mean simply that the
brother ... is the use ofthe plural pronoun with the antecedent
anybody, somebody,
someone
, the intention being either to avoid the awkward
he or she
or to avoid committing
oneself to one or the other....
... men. The samples
were then frozen and stored in a stainless
steel tank.
In the lefthand version ofthe first example, the reader has no way of knowing whether the
stain was in the center ofthe ... President in 1889.
If the antecedent consists of a group of words, the relative comes at the end ofthe group,
unless this would cause ambiguity.
The Superintendent ofthe Chicago Division, ... one of them.
Punctuate as indicated below.
in the second scene ofthe third act in III.ii (Better still, simply insert m.ii in
parentheses at the proper place in the
sentence.)
After the...
... bring the flesh and the blood. The more clearly the writer perceives the
shape, the better are the chances of success.
13. Make the paragraph the unit of composition.
The paragraph is a convenient ... Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org
The increasing reluctance ofthe sun to rise, the extra nip in the breeze, the
patter of shed leaves dropping — all the evidences of fall drifting into winter
were ... contributes to the preceding clause.
The squalor ofthe streets reminded her of a line from Oscar Wilde: "We are
all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
The colon...
... called
The Elementsof Style
, whose author was the professor himself.
The year was 1919. The book was known on the campus in those days as " ;the little book,"
with the stress on the ... instead, to
preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope ofthe discussion.
The Elementsof Style
does not pretend to survey the whole field. Rather it proposes to ... to whether" and that they should just say
"whether" — a saving of four words out of a possible five.
The professor devotes a special paragraph to the vile expression
the fact...
... 28] food for the whale, through the marine insect, on which
it feeds. After the abstraction ofthe oil from the whale, the nitrogen may, by the
What is the source ofthe carbon of plants?
What ... thousands of years.
Still, at the decay of either of these, the carbon which they contain must be again
resolved into carbonic acid.
What are the coal-beds of Pennsylvania?
13] know enough of chemistry ... simply the union ofthe carbon ofthe blood
with the oxygen ofthe air drawn into the lungs, and their breath, when thrown out,
always contains carbonic acid. From this we see that the reproduction...
... of this book is to give an overview of theories of
emotion and to consider their worth. The structure ofthe book is simple. The many
theories of emotion, and there are at least 150 covered here, ... relationships that are of importance here, rather it is
an exploration ofthe inner essential structure ofthe phenomena; in this case, of
emotion. The aim is to make analyses ofthe experience of feelings ... tight rein. At the end ofthe 19th century and the beginning ofthe 20th century,
psychologists, and others, then began to be interested, as their own discipline devel-
oped. The aim of this chapter...
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The Asterisk developers hang out here. The purpose of this list is the discussion of
the development ofthe software that is Asterisk, and its participants ... documentation forms by far the bulk ofthe information on this web
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and it probably contains more Asterisk knowledge than all other sources put
together (with the exception ofthe mailing-list ... even the most feature-rich PBX will always fail to anticipate
the creativity ofthe customer. A small group of users will desire an odd little feature
that the design team either did not think of...
... extremity ofthe long arm sealed off in the
blowpipe flame. The open end ofthe short arm is rounded off and then plugged with
cotton-wool, and the tube is ready for sterilisation.
CLEANING OF GLASS ... small pellet of sealing wax into the barrel by the side ofthe capillary tube
and then warm the tube at the gas flame until the wax becomes softened and makes an
air-tight joint between the capillary ... for the Study of Pathogenic
Bacteria"—introduced with the idea of completing the volume from the point of view
of the medical and dental student, the work has been arranged to allow of...
... architecture. In the North and West, meanwhile, under the growing
institutions ofthe papacy and ofthe monastic orders and the emergence of a feudal
civilization out ofthe chaos ofthe Dark Ages, the ... are
gathered some ofthe results of recent investigations and ofthe architectural progress
of the last few years which could not readily be introduced into the text of this edition.
The General ... to harmonize in
a building the requirements of utility and of beauty. It is the most useful ofthe fine
arts and the noblest ofthe useful arts. It touches the life of man at every point. It...
... pains with the circlet of a crown, or the rim of a crystal cup, in
the heart of their picture, they would twist their capitals of columns and towers of
churches about in the background in the most ... near them. I never allow my own pupils to ask the reason of
drawing the broken portions ofthe leaf, as at c, and carefully indicating the greater
darkness ofthe spot in the middle, where the ... while the other is in shade. This dark
side usually casts a little darker shadow at the bottom ofthe crack; and the general
tone ofthe stone surface is not so bright as the light bank of the...