the elements of style chapter 5

... remove the special objects of his scorn I have tried, instead , to preserve the flavor of his discont ent while slightly en larging the scope of the disc uss ion The Elements of ... Style does... challe nge Professor Strunk, although one of the most infl exible and choo sy of men , was qui ck to acknowledge the fallacy of infl exibility and the danger of ... My professor was William Strunk Jr A textbook required for the course was a slim volume calle d The Elements of Style, whose author was the profes sor himself Th e year was 1919 The

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2014, 13:07

... called The Elements of Style, whose author was the professor himself The year was 1919 The book was known on the campus in those days as "the little book," with the stress on the ... columns the true vs the false, the right vs the wrong, the timid vs the bold, the ragged vs the trim From every line there peers out at me the puckish face of my professor, ... to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope of the discussion The Elements of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field Rather it proposes

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2014, 13:08

... word the subject of the sentence will often, as in these examples, determine... bring the flesh and the blood The more clearly the writer perceives the shape, the better are the ... center of the rug or the rug was in the center of the room In the lefthand 36 ... construction Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they ... of the Restoration The first would be the preferred form in a paragraph on the dramatists of the Restoration, the second in a paragraph on the tastes of modern readers The

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:06

... look, for the secrets of style, to the study of the masters of literature. Chapter II ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE 1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with ’s Follow this rule whatever the final ... 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 ... statements in the form of a table 16 Keep related words together The position of the words in a sentence is the principal means of showing their relationship The writer must therefore,

Ngày tải lên: 02/02/2015, 11:00

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Ngày tải lên: 03/09/2020, 16:41

... on the 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, ... for the chain of causes and effects (The definition supplemented: another... take the position of the predicate Through the middle of the valley flowed a winding stream The ... however, are often without even this semblance of a topic sentence The break between them serves the purpose of a rhetorical... another element in the new conception of history.) 5 They undertook

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 21:21

... White’s The Elements of Style 4 and Kernighan and Plauger’s The Elements of Programming Style. 5 These small books work because they 4 William Strunk, Jr., and E. B. White. The Elements of Style, ... LinG P1: IML/SPH P2: IML/SPH QC: IML/SPH T1: IML CB656-FM CB656-Misfeldt-v10 November 7, 2003 14:52 The Elements of C++ Style The Elements of C ++ Style is for all C++ practitioners, especially those ... T1: IML CB656-FM CB656-Misfeldt-v10 November 7, 2003 14:52 ii TEAM LinG P1: IML/SPH P2: IML/SPH QC: IML/SPH T1: IML CB656-FM CB656-Misfeldt-v10 November 7, 2003 14:52 The Elements of C++Style Trevor

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:57

... in the way of her men and kept up an unbroken chattering of remonstrance and advice. When they put a clothes-sack on the front of the sled, she suggested it should go on the back; and when they ... tripped and was pulled off his feet. The capsized sled ground over him, and the dogs dashed on up the street, adding to the gayety of Skaguay as they scattered the remainder of the outfit along its ... tired and weak they were. Then, on the morning of the fourth day, two men from the States came along and bought them, harness and all, for a song. The men addressed each other as "Hal"

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 16:20

... great misery they had become insensible to the bite of the lash or the bruise of the club. The pain of the beating was dull and distant, just as the things their eyes saw and their ears heard ... lugged in the rest of the family, fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, people thousands of miles away, and some of them dead. That Hal's views on art, or the sort of society plays his mother's ... CALL OF THE WILD JACK LONDON CHAPTER 5 (P2) Then came the underfeeding. Hal awoke one day to the fact that his dog-food was half gone and the distance only quarter covered; further,

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 16:20

... overpass the fifth trial, the level of the CR then starting to decrease. Most often the level of CR reaches a maximum by the third trial. This acquisition phase relies on the memorization process, the ... according to the age of the bees. Only Delabie et al. [39] demonstrated that the sensitivity of the bees to cypermethrin increased with their age (LD 50 of 2–6-day-old bees was 1.8 times that of 12–18-day- ... and the targeted receptors of the nervous system [26, 27]. The toxic substance can also be delivered in the sucrose solution used as the reward during the CPE procedure [35]. These studies hypothesized

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... definition: ▪ “The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as ... content Read Box 5.2, p 154 © 2007 Thomson Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning   Preparing to Listen  See List pp 154-155 Empathy and Deep Understanding: A Special Kind of Listening ▪ ... Counseling Skills     The Office-the importance of a first impression  Do Box 5.1, p 151 Nonverbal Behavior  Posture, eye contact, tone of voice  Personal space  Touch ? Counselor

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2016, 11:27

... 2.75 2.50 2.25 MC 2.00 1.75 ATC 1.50 1.25 1.00 0.75 0.50 0.25 Quantity of Output (glasses of lemonade per hour) 10 Copyright © 2004 South-Western Typical Cost Curves It is now time to examine the  ... The amount a firm receives for the sale of its  output • Total Cost • The market value of the inputs a firm uses in  production Copyright © 2004 South-Western/ Total Revenue, Total Cost, and Profit • Profit is the firm’s total revenue minus its total  ... 5 FIRM BEHAVIOR AND THE ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY The Costs of Production Copyright©2004 South-Western 13 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand • Supply and demand are the two words that 

Ngày tải lên: 04/02/2020, 15:19

... results Strategic Planning  The process of envisioning an  organization’s future and  developing the necessary goals,  objectives, and action plans to  achieve that future The Baldrige “Leadership  ... Builder—shapes processes and structures to allow  for the achievement of goals and outcomes.  Motivator—influences others to take action in a  desirable manner.  Leading Practices – Leadership (1  of 2)     Create and deploy a customer­focused  ... Effectiveness of leadership system  depends in part on its organizational  structure 10 Key Idea Creating the Leadership System An effective leadership system respects  the capabilities and requirements of 

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2020, 23:34

... học nước ngoài 2013 – đợt BÀI TẬP CUỐI KY MÔN: TRƯỜNG PHÁI HÌNH THỨC NGA Chapter seven: The Elements of the Artistic Construction Chương 7: Những thành tố của cấu trúc nghệ thuật ... đã được xác định, nên thể loại dễ bị hiểu một cách máy móc là thủ pháp quy định Theo đó, các nhà hình thức luận đã không nhận được ý nghĩa thực sự của thể loại ... đến vậy Bên ngoài phạm vi nghệ thuật, mọi sự hoàn tất hay kết thúc hóa, đều tuân theo tính điều kiện, tính bề mặt, và thường được xác lập bởi các nhân tố ngoại tại

Ngày tải lên: 09/06/2021, 11:05

... of simplified spelling and are prepared to take the consequences. In the original edition of The Elements of Style , there was a chapter on spelling. In it, the author had this to say: The ... www.tailieuduhoc.org 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 ... than to the mood and temper of the author. If the writing is solid and good, the mood and temper of the writer will eventually be revealed and not at the expense of the work. Therefore, the first...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... 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 ... instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope of the discussion. The Elements of Style does not pretend to survey the whole field. Rather it proposes to...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 00:15

... object complements inverted position of 33 in periodic sentence 32 offputting 54 one 54 -55 one of , verb form after 9-10 one of the most 55 ongoing 54 opinion, injecting in writing 79-80 ... www.tailieuduhoc.org parenthetical expressions 2 -5 partially vs. partly 55 participial phrase introductory 13-14 punctuation of 4 -5 participle as verbal 13, 55 -56 passive voice 18 past ... expressing 64- 65 respective/respectively 57 restrictive clause 59 punctuation of 4 -5 restrictive term of identification 3 revising 72 -'s , use of 1 said , in dialogue 31, 75, 76 secondly ,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... that style is the writer, and therefore what you are, rather than what you know, will at last determine your style. If you write, you must believe — in the truth and worth of the scrawl, in the ... to another word in the sentence. She is the leader of our group. We opened the door by picking the lock. She went out the window. prepositional phrase A group of words consisting of a...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... 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, whether he is a member of the ... 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 ... is the use of the plural pronoun with the antecedent anybody, somebody, someone , the intention being either to avoid the awkward he or she or to avoid committing oneself to one or the other....

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... 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 Superintendent of the Chicago Division, ... one of them. Punctuate as indicated below. in the second scene of the third act in III.ii (Better still, simply insert m.ii in parentheses at the proper place in the sentence.) After the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20