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... outside.31 The Other MarksIn addition to the stops, punctuation marks include the apos-trophe, the quotation mark, the hyphen, the ellipsis, the pa-renthesis and bracket, and the diacritics. ... a sentence the comma between the subject and the verb may help readers to follow the grammar.Commas may also be used with the main elements in the case of inversion—that is, when the subject, ... enough;they require careful interpretation."Often written quotations are worked into the text in asmoother manner by an introductory that. The that requiresno stop since it turns the quotation...

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... down to the depthSTOPS 399optional between the final coordinated pair, the choice de-pending on the preference of the writer or the policy of aneditor. The first of these examples uses the ... the steps before THE HUMAN FACTORY, where little robotsgathered and shoveled the food from chamber to chamber of the body. They had put me out into the streets, I thought to myself; withtheir ... stop to signal the distinctionbetween one unit in the series and another. Look at this sen-tence about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s:There were other factors too: the deadly tedium...

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... proof—these are among the constants, the themes of the Story. Elizabeth BowenNotice how Bowen uses these to sum up all the precedingnouns and to act as the subject of the sentence. (These, ... happens in that sentence is that the accumulation isgathered between dashes and intrudes into the middle of the main sentence ("When they sat for a photograph together it was a portrait not ... and the road was whiteand dusty.There is movement here, involving both the scene and the sense by which we perceive it: we feel the heat, see the sky,lower our eyes to gaze down the road. The...

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... summoning all to prayfor the SOLlls of the dead. Morris BishopImages can appeal to other senses: to smell, taste, touch,even to the muscular sense of movement and balance (thesewake1 ... English).DefinitionsThese are divided into the senses of the verb and of the noun. The former, in turn, are distinguished for both the intransitiveand transitive uses of the verb. Within each category the vari-ous ... fashion in heroes runs to the extroverted he-man, the tough guy who saves the world with aterrific sock on the jaw of the transgressors, and the bang, bang ofhis pistol. But even this generation,...

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... uncommon words to draw attention284 DICTIONNucleonics investigates the smaller particles that go to make up the nucleus of the atom.BETTER: . that make up the nucleus of the atom.A special ... deal about such drifters: their lackof will and purpose, the futility with which they float throughlife, their incapacity to anchor themselves to anything solid,their inevitable and unmarked ... "fist"—and applies each of these to Cape Cod. At the same time he expands the metaphor into the larger inclu-sive image of the boxer—"back," "feet," "other fist,""breast"—connecting...

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... because they have much the samecontent, detailing the steps President Harding took to divert the scandal threatening his administration. Here the recurrentstyle evolves from the subject.In the other ... all these cases the writers select words for their refer-ential value, to make clear what is in their minds. The histo-rian, aiming to be factually accurate, and the philosopher,aiming to be ... anend—enabling readers to comprehend your observations,ideas, feelings, and affecting their responses both to the topicand to you in ways that you wish. To the degree that it fails to achieve your...

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... with.CONCISE These ideas are already old-fashioned, infrequentlymet with.WORDY The women of the settlement would gather together atone home to work on the quilt. They would bring theirchildren with them ... and spend the entire day, chattinggaily as they worked.CONCISE The women of the settlement would gather together atone home to work on the quilt, bringing their childrenand spending the entire ... resumed and be able to put the pieces together. Usedsparingly, the long convoluted sentence has the virtue of the unusual: it draws attention to itself and, more important, to what it says, and...

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... pirates in the Mediterranean than inall the other waters put together. In the Mediterranean they had the most part of the trade of Europe for their quarry; while the coastsof Africa, and the islands ... don't like to be told that you have to stayhome and study when they want to go to a show or go dancing.[6] So they find some other boy who doesn't have to study all the time. [7] Another way ... accustomed to the law and order of the presentday to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav-eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that few merchantmendared to put to sea...

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... large firms, they are commit-ted to their careers and eager to move ahead.They live together. They say they are in love, and they seem to be. But they are cool about it, and about the possibility ... that the businessof the storyteller is to ask questions, not to answer them. Thattruth applies sometimes to the essayist, who may wish to sug-gest a judgment rather than to formulate one. The ... out on their own. Theylive together; they say they are in love,64 THE ESSAYHere the effectiveness of closing with the death scene isreinforced by the careful construction of the last sentence,which...

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