the elements of style part 4

... 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 ... 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 ... 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

... in the sun. The making of pots by coiling strips of clay in a spiral and then moulding them together is supposed to date from about 7000 BC, as is the moulding of clay to take the form of the ... about the time of Christ that Hero of Alexandria classified the five basic machines as the lever, the wheel and axle, the wedge, the pulley and INTRODUCTION 18 the screw, but the first three of these ... to their cities. The construction of river bridges often involved the building of coffer dams of timber piles, sealed with clay, and in the building of these two machines were used: first, the

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... Rawls (1971: § 64) . The Desire Relativity of Value 149 Such a proposal? ?of hypothesizing omniscience—might seem to offer the promise of an alternative route around the difficulty of desires having ... concerning the desire-fulfilment of others and genuinely other-regarding desires. The Fulfilment of Self-regarding Desires and Personal Value The contents of many of the self-regarding desires of prudentialists, ... case of the notion of a cognitively rational thought or desire, and (3b) in the case of the notion of. .. in accounting for the possibility of weakness of will Mental Compartmentalization

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... to provide the constitutional basis for the statute together with the evidence that the objectives of the statute [...]... resource offered them by the text of the division of powers ... elements of their reasoning, they weaken their reasoning and undermine the rule of law The. .. some other body must have the task of policing the limits And judges understand their ... enabled them to avoid confronting the real basis of their argument They thus avoided the basis for the only solid answer to the question of the legal limits on the power of both

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... regardless of whether 22 Raz, The Morality of Freedom, 42 . 23 Id., 15. Understanding Authority 47 it is correct in its evaluation of the pros and cons of particular action; that being the case, ... another instance of coordination. The reasons one has to acknowledge the authority of the state are the same as those one has to acknowledge the authority of the policeman directing traffic or the ... obey). With these distinctions in mind, the thesis defended in this chapter and in the next part is this: The only claim one can derive from the concept of law as a matter of legal theory is the weaker

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... the intersection of the two, where the freedom of the mind and the freedom of the will of human individuals meets the freedom of the public mind and the freedom of ... of the brain, the emergence of the idea of Buddhist satori or of the Invisible Hand or the content of the present sentence, or any other idea whatsoever The capacity of ... and practices of Freud-based psychiatry, 44 the very idea of madness is being dissolved. 41 S. Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921), in The Standard Edition of the Complete

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... all kinds of privileges to them. Amidst these and other acts of his great piety, he departed this life in the city of Gloucester, and was honourably buried in the cathedral church, in the hundred ... all their might under the conduct of Fulgenius, and often made great slaughter both of their own countrymen and of the Romans. For Fulgenius, brought to his assistance all the people of the 72 ... of inflaming our minds with the greatest fervency of divine love, had not the deplorable impiety of barbarians deprived us of them. Among others of both sexes who continued firm in the army of

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 16 sentence fragment in tense in 31 different than, misuse of 44 direct address, name or title in direct object 36 disinterested vs uninterested 44 divided into vs composed of 44 due to 44 -45 ... is 60 (the) fact that 24 factor 46 fancy words, avoiding 76—78 farther vs further 46 Faulkner, William 68 feature 47 lOO] THE ELEMENTS fewer vs less 51 figures of speech 80 finalize 47 , 82, ... language of 82-83 business firms, 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

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

... into the water. Remove the bag. 7 Dilute the contents of the drum 1:2 (to one part of the liquid manure or plant tea add two parts of clean water). Spray the crop at the stem and not at the ... level of 360 kg per 100 m². The following recipe is used for the compost: ? Dry 1,000 kg of water hyacinth in the sun until the weight is re- duced to approximately 40 0 kg. Then mix the dried ... pond of about 100 m² after six months, you need to feed them 2 kg of compost every day. For these The preparation and use of compost 46 quantities you will need four compost heaps of the

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 05:20

... distinguish the two types of strings Underlying patterns are sought, and are incorpo­ rated in the formulation of the rules themselves The complete set of such rules is called the grammar of the language ... well if the focus of therapy was restricted to increasing the strength, speed, and accuracy of movement of individual muscle groups, and not on the goal of ambulation itself THE VARIETY OF METHODOLOGIES ... other aspects of the letter's alphabetic or lexical environment Bloomfield's (1 942 /1961) selection of the vowel letter i also buttresses the notion of an ideal system With the lone exception of

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:21

... interpretations One of the items that changed most during the course of the therapy was her belief about the control of the voices, and homework tasks were set with the purpose of giving her the feeling ... whether the individual is operating more from the shared reality, or from their private, psychotic reality (see further in Clarke, 2001) Part of the focus of the group is in raising awareness of ... problem, getting these to work together is at the heart of the solution The ideas of shared and non-shared reality, the ability to hold two ideas at once, and the role of state of arousal in mediating

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... code 44 , 45 , 143 , 144 commenting variables 150 comments, agreement of code and 142 comments, excessive 1 04, 151 comments, incorrect 70, 88, 142 , 143 , 151 comments, subconscious acceptance of 142 ... tree, minimum depth 46 , 53 decision trees, bushy 47 decisions, forcing order of 45 decisions, order of 38, 44 , 47 decisions, rearranging 38, 44 , 46 declaration, explicit type 14, 153 declaration, ... QA 76.6.K47 1978 001.6 '42 78- 349 8 ISBN 0-07-0 342 07-5 The Elements of Programming Style Copyright © 1978, 19 74 by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated All rights reserved No part of this publication

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2022, 15:38

... 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

... composed of 44 due to 44 -45 each pronoun after 60 verb form after 10 each and every one 45 eccentric vs. standard language 81- 84 effect vs. affect 45 e.g ., punctuation of 3 either , ... www.tailieuduhoc.org hopefully 48 however 48 -49 hyphen 34- 35 I vs. myself 12 i.e ., punctuation of 3 illusion vs. allusion 40 imitation, in writing 70 imply vs. infer 49 importantly , misuse of 49 in ... except , subjects joined by 10 exclamations 34 expect vs. anticipate 40 -41 facility 46 fact 46 (the) fact is 60 (the) fact that 24 factor 46 fancy words, avoiding 76-78 93 For...

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 writing ... 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

... 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 ... matter of reading the books that sharpen the ear. The line between the fancy and the plain, between the atrocious and the felicitous, is sometimes alarmingly fine. The opening phrase of the Gettysburg ... 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

... 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 ... The from titles when you place the possessive before them. A Tale of Two Cities ; Dickens's Tale of Two Cities. The Age of Innocence ; Wharton's Age of Innocence . 44 For ... 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

... 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