... summoning all to pray
for the
SOLlls of
the dead. Morris Bishop
Images can appeal to other senses: to smell, taste, touch,
even to the muscular sense of movement and balance (these
wake
1
... English).
Definitions
These are divided into the senses of the verb and of the noun.
The former, in turn, are distinguished for both the intransitive
and transitive uses of the...
... outside.
3
1
The Other Marks
In 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
invers...
... down to the depth
STOPS 399
optional between the final coordinated pair, the choice de-
pending on the preference of the writer or the policy of an
editor. The first of these examples uses the ... the steps before THE HUMAN FACTORY, where little robots
gathered and shoveled the food from chamber to chamber of the
body. They had put me out into the streets,
I
th...
... proof—these
are among the constants, the themes of the
Story. Elizabeth
Bowen
Notice how Bowen uses these to sum up all the preceding
nouns and to act as the subject of the sentence. (These, ... happens in that sentence is that the accumulation is
gathered between dashes and intrudes into the middle of the
main sentence ("When they sat for a photograph together
i...
... uncommon words to draw attention
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DICTION
Nucleonics 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 ... cases the adjective is
unnecessary:
There is considerable danger involved.
We question the methods employed.
The equipment needed is expensive.
The store stocks many product...
... because they have much the same
content, detailing the steps President Harding took to divert
the scandal threatening his administration. Here the recurrent
style 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 th...
... with.
CONCISE These ideas are already old-fashioned, infrequently
met with.
WORDY The women of the settlement would gather together at
one home to work on the quilt. They would bring their
children with them ... and spend the entire day, chatting
gaily as they worked.
CONCISE The women of the settlement would gather together at
one home to work on the quilt, bringing their c...
... pirates in the Mediterranean than in
all the other waters put together.
In
the Mediterranean they had the
most part of the trade of Europe for their quarry; while the coasts
of Africa, and the islands ... don't like to be told that you have to stay
home and study when they want to go to a show or go dancing.
[6] So they find some other boy who doesn't have t...
... 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 business
of the storyteller is to ask questions, not to answer them. That
truth applies sometimes to the essayist, who may wish to sug-
gest a judgment rather tha...