the oxford essensial guide to writing phần 9 potx

... 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 ... stop to signal the distinction between one unit in the series and another. Look at this sen- tence about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 192 0s: There were other...

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... 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. ... or intrude into the quoted matter. The three possibilities are punctuated like this: THE OTHER MARKS 4 29 Many of winter's plants are partial to the cleared sid...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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... uncommon words to draw attention 284 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 ... words, and timidity, then, are some of the psychological factors leading to deadwood. In practice, they are manifested in either of two ways: circum- locution, using too many word...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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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 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...

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