the elements of style part 3

... 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

... largest part of the total loss of ener,gy in the machine. With regard to the numnerical values of the coefficient of hysteresis, the observations up to the time of my last paper cover the range, ... constitution of the next best samnple j X 10 = 1 .33 is almost exactly the same as the con- stitution of samples C X 1 03 = 4.77 and ^ X 1 03 - 3. 22, show- ing quite conclusively that the chemical ... A of the Initernational Electrical Congress at Chicago, 18 93. ÆTHERFORCE [...]... circuit containiing iron, the admnittance is the sum of the adiimittance due to the iron part of

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:42

... 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 ... 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 ... or remove the special objects of his scorn. I have tried, instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope of the discussion. The Elements of Style does

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:06

... between the twelve cycles of the moon and the one of the sun, were astronomers, scientists. Admittedly they were working towards the practical solutions of how to predict the seasons, the flooding of ... must forgo the telescope as a part of technology and consider it the prerogative of the editor of an Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, just as we would consider the violin and the bassoon ... own reward. They are willing to pursue it for the pure fun of it. Though many of them may be professionals, they are in fact truly amateurs in the exact sense of the word. Long may they flourish

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... convinced of the truth of p prior to, and thus independently of, becoming convinced of the truth of q For otherwise one’s endorsement of the truth of q cannot result from the endorsement ... of attitudes of desire and the Introduction: Subjectivism and Objectivism 101 performing of consequent actions, from the evaluative, having to do with the objects of these attitudes. In the theoretical ... some other attitude is a necessary condition for something being of value. There are then two forms of objectivism: objectivists can either deny both the neces- sity and the sufficiency of the subjective

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... during apartheid, or of the majority of the House of Lords during the two world wars, or the American Supreme Court in Korematsu Prominent in their... exemplary of the rule of ... the true legalization of illegality, a state of affairs brought... by the commands of the uncommanded commander For these sceptics, the slogan the rule of law rather than the ... by the law of England as having the right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament’. 133 Thus there is ‘no legal basis for the theory that judges, as exponents of

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... developed in the chapters that follow. As indicated in the preface, the two parts of the present study correspond to the two issues, one an issue of legal theory, the other an issue of political theory, ... question of the objectivity of legal standards in Chapter 4. For the most part, however, the main theses in this study are independent of the debate about the objectivity of legal norms: The claims ... rather than, as in the case of theoretical authority, reasons for belief? The answers to these questions typically focus on one kind of case: the case of coordination. 13 To use the

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... philosophy-for-itself, one part of the totality of the self-contemplating of the human mind. As practical theory, they express themselves in the 16 For further discussion of the three dimensions of a society’s ... species-mind. The ideal 3. 22 The potentiality of human self-creating takes the particular form of the ideal when the mind conceives of the present in the light of a better future, when the mind judges the ... practice, the programme of actual willing and acting. As pure theory, they act as the theory of practical theory, the programme of society’s programmes. 18 As transcendental theory, they act as the theory

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... Starting with the rights of the common over (Bill of Rights in 1789 in the USA and the abolition of slavery in the UK in 1 833 ), there have been... likely to be the inadequate ... indicator of welfare than an anthropomorphic assessment of the conditions of the animals. An example of the difficulties of an anthropomorphic assessment of welfare is the early weaning of dairy ... Although they can do little to influence the forces of nature, or the balance of wildlife, they understand the importance of maintaining these reserves as a sanctuary for wildlife, when the forces of

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... themselves. They therefore sometimes broke the force of the enemyÕs engines, by other engines of their own, sometimes repulsed them from the walls with showers of darts. This so incensed the two brothers, ... their share in the kingdom, but assigned a 52 Geoffrey of Monmouth large part of it to them. For he bestowed the city of Trinovantum, with the dukedom of Kent, on Androgeus; and the dukedom of ... for the defence of their country and liberty, they, even... about the victory The name of the kingÕs nephew was Hirelglas, the otherÕs Evelinus As they were reproaching each other,

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 ... 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, ... used The. .. each of which should be made the subject of a paragraph The object of treating each topic in a paragraph by itself is, of course, to aid the reader The beginning of

Ngày tải lên: 02/02/2015, 11:00

... of 33 subordinate clause punctuation of 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 ... construction 26-28 parentheses 36 references in 37 parenthetical expressions 2-5 partially vs partly 55 participial phrase introductory 13- 14 punctuation of 4-5 participle as verbal 13, 55-56 passive ... writing style 71-72 number of verb 9-11 numerals 35 object direct 36 indirect 89 pronoun as 11, 12 object complements inverted position of 33 in periodic sentence 32 offputting 54 one 54-55 one of,

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 ... became the subjects of their works (The definition expanded.) 3 They sought rather to write a history of peoples than a history of kings (The definition explained by contrast.) 4 They

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 21:21

... existing software, your changes should follow the style of the original code.6 Do not introduce a new coding style in... LinG 24 THE ELEMENTS OF C++ STYLE 23 Use “other” for ... experience, the value of consistent programming style grows exponentially with the number of people working with the code. Our favorite style guides are classics: Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style ... 20 03 14:52 The Elements of C++ Style The Elements of C ++ Style is for all C++ practitioners, especially those working in teams where consistency is critical. Just as Strunk and White’s The Elements

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:57

... 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 ... centuries ago, Christopher Columbus, one of the Italian mariners whom the decline of their own republics had put at the service of the world and of 39 For more material and information, please ... 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20

... address 3 possessive case of 1 proverbial expressions 37 qualifiers, avoiding 73 quotation(s) 36 -37 colon introducing 8 quotation marks for colloquialisms 34 punctuation with 36 rather 73 ... 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 59 thanking you in advance 59 that ... 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...

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

... 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

... 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 ... 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 — ... 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 diplomatic skill, they enlarged their...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 20:20