the elements of style part 2

... 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

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Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:42

... side of the tracks But The general's quarters are across the river 22 In these cases the writer must simply learn the idioms The contents of a book is singular The contents of ... readers The need to make a particular 28 word the subject of the sentence will often, as in these examples, determine... bring the flesh and the blood The more clearly the writer ... 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

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:06

... Gliders 621 The Wright brothers 622 European pioneers 624 Military and commercial applications 626 The inter-war years 629 The Second World War 632 Demise of the flying-boat 633 Expansion of civil ... 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

... p 52 The Nature of Para-cognitive Attitudes [...]... for the having of an emotion is altogether different from saying that the having of an emotion partly consists in the having of ... the falsity of (2) Even when they are present, these feelings are not among the conditions that trigger off those behavioural tendencies in which desires consist; they are part of the ... in the case of emotions); and when a desire is imputed as a part of the ascription of some emotion, the subject is implied to be in a state of desiring as the result of the

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... 23 evicted because of the abhorrence of other members towards apartheid and the political... such as the 20 02 decision of the House of Lords in Secretary of State for the ... English Style’ [1995] Public Law 57–71 at 69 23 24 25 Woolf, The Rule of Law , 328 Ibid Ibid., 329 Ibid., 328 judges and the politics of the rule of law 29 In assessing these ... the time of the consequences of their decisions... the use of courts, if you cannot access them? The response of the government and the House of Lords to the chorus of

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... – the issue of the legitimacy of state coercion – that poses the more radical problem in the event of divergence. If law implicitly operates on a theory of legitimacy inconsistent with the theory ... ourselves (“the morals of a Don Juan,” “the morals of a Mother Theresa”). In each of these cases, as the examples suggest, description is usually followed closely by evaluation: characterizing another’s ... the. .. Calhoun, The Virtue of Civility,” Phil & Pub Affairs 29 (20 00): 25 1; Sarah Buss, “Appearing Respectful: The Moral Significance of Manners,” Ethics 109 (1999): 795 24 part

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... self-consciousness in the face of the terrible events of the twentieth century and the rise of the overwhelming forces of mass-consciousness. (5) The universities, the realm devoted to the study of both ends ... self by the idea of the universal self For the other, the solution lies in the capacity of the. .. on the one hand, that the existing field of legal forces provides the possibilities ... merely the externalis- ing of national government (chapter 12). To conceive of the history of interstatal society as the history of the abuse of public power is to deny the will to know and the

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... sion in the hunt (Thackeray, 2005). We can picture the scene before the hunt. The men in the tribe had learned of the whereabouts of a herd of mammoths, they withdrew to an inner part of the caves, ... ravages of the wars of the first half of the century, there was a time of exploration of nature’s beauty, perhaps as an antidote The public were captivated by the work of Joy ... the caves, away from the distractions of the women and children. They carried a torch to light their way. Then deep in the cave system, they sat and watched as the artist of the group drew a huge

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... himself the gold and silver which he found in the ships, 23 Geoffrey of Monmouth together with three virgins of admirable beauty, whereof one was the daughter of a king in Germany, whom with the other ... government with them. But to make trial who was worthy to have the 28 Geoffrey of Monmouth best part of his kingdom, he went to each of them to ask which of them loved him most. The question being ... Israel. He also built the city of Alclud** towards Albani, and the town of mount Agned, called at this time the Castle of Maidens, or the Mountain of Sorrow. 26 Geoffrey of Monmouth Chapter 8.

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... 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: 02/02/2015, 11:00

... homeopathic doctrine and, 92–93 illustrated, 20 importance of iridology and, 21 Introduction to the Diagnosis from the Eye, 21 in iridology origins, 2 life disappointments, 21 Liljequist and, 21 medicine and, 22 on pigments, 56 ... intoxication with drugs, 125, 129 joint pain, 124 lymphatic system inflammation, 133 migraines, 124, 126, 129, 131 neurasthenia, 129 painful menstruation, 129 pain predisposition, 127 palpitations, 125 sinusitis and tonsillitis predisposition, 124 ... digestive and cardiac, 32 exploring, 22 genitourinary, 34 glandular and lymphatic, 33 Henry Lindlahr, 24 H W Anderschou, 25–26 H W Schmidt, 28–31 Ignaz von Peczely, 24 J A Vidaurrazaga, 25 N Liljequist, 27 nomenclature for sign locations, 23

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2020, 23:06

... 110, 156, 182, 190 drinks: beer 145, 150, 254, 257, 259; champagne 150, 254, 257, 259; coffee 126, 254, 257, 259; soft-drinks 142, 214, 254, 257, 259; spirits 150, 254, 257, 259; wine 128, 145, ... 89–90, 98 Goffman, E 51, 53–5, 89, 124, 125n3, 182, 186, 220, 231 Goffmanian labour 28, 204–5, 210, 219, 223, 242 Gombrich, E.H 126–8 Grignon, C & C 136, 225 habit 41–3, 64n1, 64n2 habitus 5, ... 6, 56, 58 Galton, F 88, 125n2 gender 4, 27, 59, 62, 89, 215, 220, 229, 237, 238; homologies of class and 32–4, 34, 171; objectification of the body and 27–8, 63, 122, 216; see also femininity,

Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2020, 02:23

... morphine  272, 276, 286, 289, 292, 296, 298; see also anaesthetics Morris, David B.  12, 293, 295, 297, 304 n. 24, 369 n. 101, 370 n. 115, 372 n. 135 Moscoso, Javier  17, 304 n. 22 Mother’s Medical ... also anaesthetics Ord, John Walker  243–4 ‘Organ of Courage’  202–3 ‘Organ of Destructiveness’  201–2, 202, 236–7 ‘Organ of Fighting’  201–2 ‘Origin of the Gout’ (Bunbury)  66 Osler, Sir William  122, ... afflictions 199–200 a blow to spiritual good argument 124 defence of not giving  292, 296–7 for infants  218 introduction in 1846:  271–2 invention/proliferation of  22 meaning of  272–5 and sympathy  256–7

Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2020, 14:32

... names of but comma before loose sentences with 25 use of 41-42 while as substitute for 63 can vs may 42 sparing use of 20 care less, misuse of 42 case of pronouns 11-13 case (noun), misuse of 42 ... George 22-23 overstatement 73 overwriting 72 Paine, Thomas 67 paragraphs 15-17 parallel construction 26-28 parentheses 36 references in 37 parenthetical expressions 2-5 partially vs partly 55 participial ... 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

Ngày tải lên: 03/09/2020, 16:41

... 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 ... preferred form in a paragraph on the dramatists of the Restoration, the second in a paragraph on the tastes of modern readers. The need to make a particular 28 For more material and information, ... 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 —...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... punctuation of 5 summaries 31- 32 superfluous words/phrases 23 -24 , 72 syllabication 38 syntax 28 -31 inversion 32- 33 parallelism 26 -28 tense in summaries 31- 32 than case of pronoun after 12 ... use of 20 modifier(s) adjectival 12 position of 30-31 most vs. almost 53 myself vs. I 12 names (of firms), comma in 2 names (of persons) in direct address 3 possessive case of ... punctuation of 5-7 statement supplementing 4 mannerisms 17, 42 margins 35 may vs. can 42 sparing use of 20 meaningful 53 memento 53 metaphor, use of 80 might , sparing use of 20 modal...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... can vs. may 42 sparing use of 20 care less , misuse of 42 case of pronouns 11-13 case (noun), misuse of 42 certainly 42 character , misuse of 42 claim (verb) 42- 43 clarity in ... 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 ... 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

... 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 ... 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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... 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, 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20