the elements of style third edition strunk and white

... to the front of the sentence and then placing the subject clause at the end of the compound subordinate sentence form the physical shape of a word itself the phonemes and morphemes ... 2. Did the principal make Bart stay after school again? 3. I dared them to jump off the top of the Sears Tower. 4. The judged considered the witness to be lying. 5. We intend for them to ... combination of two or more yes/no questions into one semantically from the standpoint of (and as related to) the meaning of a word sentence any sense-making piece of writing... refused They

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... subject; the dummy subject then appears at the begin- ning of the sentence, separated from the rest of the sentence. Extrapositional means that the it is extra (beyond) the position (part of the ... [21] The big bad wolf couldn’t blow the house down because of the hurricane. → Because of the hur- ricane, the big bad wolf couldn’t blow the house down. The six coordinating conjunctions are and/(either)or/(neither)nor ... wine and Marilyn will bring the salad and Geri will bring the dessert. [36c] Geri will bring the dessert and Ken will bring the wine and Marilyn will bring the salad. [37a] Sam will wash the

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... suggested, among them the weather, the temperature, the climate, and the environment Thus it is not too much of a stretch of the imagination... glass on the floor that bothered John ... late when they arrived.) (Cf *They arrived in a late manner; *They arrived... thousands of rats there 10 It’s been heard here, and there, and all around the town 11 Sam told me there was ... The drunk hid the bourbon in the cellar 5 What bothered John was the glass on the floor 6 It was the thief who bit the dog, and not vice versa 7 It was a dark and stormy night, and

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... The Twenty Types of Relative Clauses 159 noun the man Just as the man is the subject of the man sings Wagner, so is the man the subject of the man is their friend So the ... pronoun... The more intrinsic the adjective is to the nature of the noun, the closer it will be to the noun [1 {i.e., the first word in the noun phrase}: the determiner] 2: the ... is their friend In (96), the main clause is The man is their friend and the relative clause is the man sings Wagner By combining the main clause and the relative clause we get the

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... *Husband washes the dishes b Husbands wash the dishes while wives dry them c The husband washes the dishes and the wife takes out the garbage d The husbands wash the dishes and the ... frightened the witch but saved the princess from the dragon. 5. The gentry and the nobility looked down on the serfs and, from the heights of their castles high above the sea, upon the surf as ... disapprove of his thinking’s way. 8. In Sam’s expert opinion, the operas of Puccini are the best around. 9. The queen lost it in the attic of the castle’s. 10. The sword of the bodyguard of the queen

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... hand can she give it to Elizabeth. Elizabeth then is the second recipient (and thus the indirect object [IO]) of the action of the verb. Rebecca, as the subject and the person performing the ... consists of the appropriate tense/person/number-bearing form of the nonmodal auxiliary BE plus the past participle of the LV (here seen) None of the other complements of (61) ... eaten by the dog ?The cat will be... and (if there is one) indirect object, and then indicate the grammatical subject in the passive sentences Example of how to proceed: X The house

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... involves adding the appropriate tense/number form of the nonmodal auxiliary verb do to the emphatic structure and then stressing that form, thereby emphasizing the action of the verb Here ... contracted forms to the end of nouns and pronouns whether personal, possessive, or indefinite Contracted auxiliaries also attach themselves to the end of wh-words and to here/there Of course ... formal and the functional differences between modal and nonmodal auxiliaries as well as between both of them together and the category known as lexical verbs (LVs) the vast majority of

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... pronounce you man and wife [The minute the official pronounces the words man and wife, the couple has entered the married state.] Here is where the. .. marriage? THE FUTURE AND THE CONDITIONAL ... progressive. The three words are these: a conjugated form of the nonmodal auxiliary have been (the past participle of BE) the present participle of the particular LV Here are some examples of these ... THINKING IT THROUGH A. Give the past and the past participle forms for each of these verbs. Then tell whether the verb is regular or irregular, and, if irregular, which of the nine irregular verbs

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... The Most Important Parts of Speech and , the indentured servants 13 heaved the great big blocks of stone up the face of the monument The mean and cruel overseer working whipped the ones ... also be the object of a preposition Here are some examples of that: [45] [46] [47] I gave the godfather the money in an alley They found the little koala on the road The boy ran with his father ... proceed: X My grandmother’s pet mouse ran up the clock Grandmother’s is genitive, pet mouse is subject, and the clock is object They told me the secret Joe found Sandy’s notes in the library He

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... grammar, ” they must learn and conform to the standards that were said to typify the language of the most prestigious speakers of their wider speech community (The standards have ... conjugate them by putting them in other tenses, persons, or numbers.) Example of how to proceed: X They waved at the wave in the ocean Waved is a verb because it comes second in its clause and ... of the subject At the heart of every predicate... another, from one person and number to another .1 We know that the following italicized words are verbs because we can conjugate them

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... the letter, read it and made a note of its contents. This is also the usage of the Government Printing Office and of the Oxford University Press. In the names of business firms the last comma is ... dramatists of the Restoration; the second, in a paragraph on the tastes of modern readers The need of making a particular word the subject of the sentence will often, as in these ... of a... In the example above, the relation is that of cause and result The two sentences might be rewritten: As the early records of the city have disappeared, the story of

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... devaluates costs and can lead to sunk cost processes Soman (2001) tested the hypothesis where the payment method alters the strength of the relationship between past expenses and future ... the largely neglected purchase history can be highly valuable for improving the profitability of direct marketing The importance of categorized purchases is further supported on the ... level by Ainslie and. .. learning is the assumption of strategies that reflect the goal orientation of behavior These strategies are linking perceived states of the environment to

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... The Elements of Style THE ELEMENTS OF Style BY WILLIAM STRUNK Jr With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on Writing BY E.B.WHITE F O U R T H E D I T I O N ... copyrighted in 1957 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc The Elements of Style, Revised Edition, by William Strunk Jr and Edward A Tenney, copyright 1935 by Oliver Strunk Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication ... number of the subject determines the number of the verb 10 Use the proper case of pronoun ix xiii 1 2 5 7 9 11 vij CONTENTS 11 A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the

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... at the station. A soldier of proved valor, they entrusted him with the defence of the city. A soldier of proved valor, he was entrusted with the defence of the city. Young and inexperienced, the task ... Columbus, one of the Italian mariners whom the decline of their own republics had put at the service of the world and of adventure, seek- ing for Spain a westward passage to the Indies as a set- off against ... indicate the actual or imagined circumstances of the poem (the situation), if these call for explanation, and would then state the subject and outline its development. If the poem is a narrative in the...

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... will 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 ... nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our ... shortcuts at the cost of clarity. 80 20. Avoid foreign languages. 81 21. Prefer the standard to the offbeat. 81 AFTERWORD 87 GLOSSARY 89 INDEX 97 8] THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE than the comma, ...

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2014, 13:08

... even the established rules of grammar are open to challenge. Professor Strunk, although one of the most inflexible and choosy of men, was quick to acknowledge the fallacy of inflexibility and the ... all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer ... returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill;...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:06

... of the Italian mariners whom the decline of their own republics had put at the service of the world and of adventure, seeking for Spain a westward passage to the Indies as a set-off against the ... might return towards the stockade. He picked up the heavy lamp from the table and began to explore. Another flight of steps, and they emerged on the roof. The brief paragraphs of animated narrative, ... word, all the conditions of national well-being became the subjects of their works. (The definition expanded.) 4 They sought rather to write a history of peoples than a history of kings. (The definition...

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... men. The samples were then frozen and stored in a stainless steel tank. In the lefthand version of the first example, the reader has no way of knowing whether the stain was in the center of the ... even the established rules of grammar are open to challenge. Professor Strunk, although one of the most inflexible and choosy of men, was quick to acknowledge the fallacy of inflexibility and the ... will 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...

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... inverted position of 33 104 For more material and information, please visit Tai Lieu Du Hoc at www.tailieuduhoc.org the fact that 24 the foreseeable future 59 the truth is 60 then , semicolon ... time, notation of 8 titles (of persons), punctuation of 3 titles (of works) 8, 38 together with , subjects joined by 10 tortuous vs. torturous 62 transition sentences of 16-17 transitive ... sparing use of 20 writing benefits of 70 difficulties with 69 ear for 77-78 principles of 15-33 style of 66-85 yet 41 you vs. yourself 12 109 For more material and information,...

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... influenced by the poetry of Walt Whitman. Moreover , Williams's emphasis on the present and the immediacy of the ordinary represented a rejection of the poetic stance and style of his contemporary ... 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 ... E. B. White shared Strunk& apos;s sympathy for the reader. To Strunk& apos;s do's and don'ts he added passages about the power of words and the clear expression of thoughts and feelings....

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