the elements of style part 1 doc

... 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 ... 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 ... 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: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... Cuba, 11 8 Spanish-American War: causes of, IV, 10 5; declared, 10 6; blockade of Cuban coast, 11 0; landing of American army in Cuba, 11 1; fighting near Santiago, 11 2; fort at El Caney, picture, 11 2; ... San Juan Hill, battle, 11 3; San Juan Hill, picture of monument, 11 4; naval battle of Santiago, 11 5; peace negotiations, 11 6; "Peace Tree," picture, 11 6; treaty of peace, 11 8 Spanish literature ... which is the sole alternative A line drawn from the heart of the United States to the heart of South America passes through the heart of Cuba A line drawn from the mouth of the Mississippi to the

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... 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 19 19 The ... 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 doctrine ... 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

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2014, 13:07

... called The Elements of Style, whose author was the professor himself The year was 19 19 The book was known on the campus in those days as "the little book," with the stress on the ... also has certain functions of form: to follow the salutation of a formal letter,... when the relative is the subject 10 ] THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE One of the ablest scientists who ... 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,

Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2014, 13:08

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Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:42

... meanings of this term: 1) the growth of one part of an 4 Biomass and Remote Sensing of Biomass organism in relation to the growth of the whole organism or some other part of ... in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the ... any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source.

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 12:20

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Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... 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 ... subject. 13 II. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION 15 12 . Choose a suitable design and hold to it. 15 13 . Make the paragraph the unit of composition. 15 14 . Use the active voice. 18 15 . Put ... required for the course was a slim volume called The Elements of Style , whose author was the professor himself. The year was 19 19. The book was known on the campus in those days as " ;the little

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:06

... eighteenth centuries 978 The industrial age 983 The First World War 989 The Second World War 998 Weapons today 10 06 The Contributors 10 12 Index of Names 10 18 Index of Topics 10 33 xiv PREFACE Dr ... with the dexterity to make practical use of his ideas. The Encyclopaedia had its inception during the period when I was Executive Secretary of the Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of ... contributed so much to the usefulness of the Encyclopaedia. I would like also here to acknowledge the generosity of the Trustees of the Science Museum for permission to reproduce over 60 of the illustrations

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... to the wall thickness of the casting to be produced. The wall thickness of the San Marco horses varies between 7.5 and 10 .5mm, and originally they were gilded. From the duplex structure of the ... silver artefacts from the shaft graves at Mycenae (c .15 50 BC) were made from metal coming from the Laurion mine. Egyptian silver artefacts of the 10 th and 11 th Dynasties ( 217 5? ?19 91 BC) also appear ... were well aware of the effect of tin on the properties of the alloys they employed. From the weapons which were found in the Mycaenean tombs it is evident that metal workers, even in the sixteenth

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... finance the building of blast furnaces themselves; otherwise groups of men formed partnerships, sharing the funding and the profits. Partnerships in business were not new, but they were novel in the ... noticed a change in the nature of the stones used to surround and contain the fire. If two of the stones were banged together, they gave off a dull sound and did not crack or splinter: the charcoal ... though they all functioned in the same way. They were made of clay, which would resist the heat of the fire. Charcoal was lighted inside the bloomery and then, while a continuous blast of air

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... turned only by the flow of the water, it is important that the floats retain the same relationship to the flow of the water at all levels of the river. At Pont Neuf the whole body of the pumps and ... (foundations) of the bridge piers reduced the water passage to 50 per cent of the river’s width. At high water the difference in level across the width of the bridge was 25cm (1ft) and at low water 1. 38m ... volumes of plates, was published between 17 51 and 17 72. These plates, like Leupold’s, showed the methods of construction and manufacture of every trade. Thus, in the chapter on the making of black

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... until 17 74). The combination of Watt’s scientific and engineering talents, the business acumen of Boulton, and the compatability of their personalities ensured the success of the partnership and of ... on the upper side of the piston and forces it downward. When the piston reaches the base of the cylinder, a valve is opened that equilibriates the pressure on either side of the piston so the ... into the steam case surrounding the cylinder. The separate condenser is then connected to the cylinder, the condensation of the steam produces a vacuum and the pressure of the steam in the steam

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... spray the fuel into the cylinder, relying for evaporation on the hot gases produced by compression of the air in the cylinder (the Diesel engine, see p. 311 ). The application of the first method ... so the power output of the engine is less than predicted. The scavenging process is assisted by ensuring that the pressure of the incoming fresh charge is slightly higher than the pressure of the ... compression-ignition engine the most sophisticated methods are applied (see below). PART TWO: POWER AND ENGINEERING 310 18 80? ?19 00: different types of fuel By about 18 80 the principles of the practical internal

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... two resistances, and the ratio of the resistances was then the same as the ratio of the two sections of the potentiometer. The rapid progress in electric lighting around 18 80 created a demand ... magnets, one at the top, one at the bottom, with their north poles pointing in opposite directions. As the shaft turned, the ends of the permanent magnets passed close to the poles of the four vertical ... polarity of an iron-cored electromagnet. The Scotsman Robert Davidson made motors which also operated by switching the electromagnets on and off, not reversing them. In the winter of 18 41? ??42 the Royal

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... that 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 mood and temper of the writer ... system 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 spelling ... 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 (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating;...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... 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 convenient ... or contributes to the preceding clause The squalor of the streets reminded her of a line from Oscar Wilde: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." The colon also has ... www.tailieuduhoc.org In these cases the writer must simply learn the idioms The contents of a book is singular The contents of a jar may be either singular or plural, depending on what's in the jar — jam...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... number of the subject determines the number of the verb 10 Use the proper case of pronoun 11 11 A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject 13 II ELEMENTARY ... PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION 15 12 Choose a suitable design and hold to it 15 13 Make the paragraph the unit of composition 15 14 Use the active voice 18 15 Put statements in positive form 19 16 Use ... volume called The Elements of Style, whose author was the professor himself The year was 19 19 The book was known on the campus in those days as "the little book," with the stress on the word "little."...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... effectiveness of 32 vs loose sentence 25, 26 personal pronouns case of 11 -13 after each/every 60 personalize 56 personally 56 persons 56 phrase adverbial 44 participial 4-5, 13 -14 prepositional 13 -14 10 0 ... future 59 the truth is 60 then, semicolon with there is/are, substituting 18 -19 therefore, semicolon with they vs he/she 60- 61 thirdly, misuse of 57 this, ambiguous reference 61 thrust 61 thus, ... design 15 , 70- 71 student body 58 style 66-69, 84-85 guidelines for 70-84 subject(s) agreement with verb 9 -11 compound 10 emphatic position of 33 position in sentence 29 pronoun as 11 -12 subject...

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 No ... 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, of government are familiar to most of us Even the ... segments of their society, each speaking a language of its own All of us come under the spell of these unsettling drums; the problem for beginners is to listen to them, learn the words, feel the vibrations,...

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