Tài liệu The elements of style part 7 pptx

... www.tailieuduhoc.org punctuation of 5 design 15, 70 -71 details, reporting 21-22 dialect 78 -79 dialogue adverbs in 75 attributives in 31, 75 , 76 dates and numbers in 35 paragraphing of 16 sentence fragment in 7 tense ... would for repeated action 64-65 sparing use of 20 writing benefits of 70 difficulties with 69 ear for 77 -78 principles of 15-33 styl...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... formal and the informal, the regular and the offbeat, the general and the special, the orthodox and the heretical, the beginner err on the side of conservatism, on the side of established usage. ... gets the impression that the person using it doesn't know, either, and doesn't want to know. The special vocabularies of the law, of the military...

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... submerged. The log was partly submerged. She was partially in and partially out. She was partly in and partly out. She was part in, part out. Participle for verbal noun. There was little prospect of ... one of us knows he is fallible. Everyone in the community, whether they are a member of the Association or not, is invited to attend. Everyone in the community, wheth...

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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 ... President in 1889. If the antecedent consists of a group of words, the relative comes at the end of the group, unless this would cause ambiguity. The Super...

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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 of the adjective little ... draws the reader's attention to the sense and substance of the writing, rather than to the mood and temper of the author. If the writing is solid and good, the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... When the main clause of a sentence is preceded by a phrase or a subordinate clause, use a comma to set off these elements. Partly by hard fighting, partly by di...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... summary. 9 9. The number of the subject determines the number of the verb. 9 10. Use the proper case of pronoun. 11 11. A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical ... 8. My professor was William Strunk Jr. A textbook required for the course was a slim volume called The Elements of Style , whose author was the profess...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... "I'm partially resigned to it." Partly carries the idea of a part as distinct from the whole — usually a physical object. The log was partially submerged....

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 00:15

... supermarkets throughout the country. When the weather turns warm in New England every summer, the price of hotel rooms in the Caribbean plummets. When a war breaks out in the Middle East, the price of gasoline in the ... are often used together. When a fall in the price of one good raises the demand for another good, the two goods are called complements. Complements...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 11:15

... seen with the unaided eye and is often The Elements of Fiber Cable Management Page 3 reversible. As the macrobend occurs, the radius can become too small and allow light to escape the core and ... services – whether it’s from the MSO headend, a CO, or wireless mobile switching center (MSC). As the amount of fiber dramatically increases, the importance of properly m...

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