the elements of style part 7

... 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

... 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

... from the laboratories of the Bell Telephone Company in the USA. The transistor was much smaller than the thermionic valve, consumed less power and was far more reliable. The controlled flow of ... during the Industrial Revolution the ingenious powers of man were devoted to saving labour and to enhancing the capabilities of the paltry human frame. As we approach the last decade of the twentieth ... well below their melting point to soften them after cold forging, or in the furnaces where crystals were melted together. Apart from gold, silver and the other noble metals, copper is the only

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 01:20

... and there is no other kind of thing that matches both of these aspects of the notion of being the subject of our consciousness. This enables us to answer quickly the question of whether the O-bias ... because we believe them to be such that neither the phenomenal aspect nor the owner aspect of the notion of the self can outlast them, that is, we believe them to be the subjects of our consciousness ... discussed below, the fact that the parts of x at one time and of y at another are identical does not entail that x and y are identical, even if they are of the same kind, as they are not in the present

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... of confidentiality. Further, he pointed out that often the issue would be protection of the confidentiality of informants rather than of the information. In addition, the courts had, in terms of ... intervention is often crucial to maintaining the rule of law. And the same point can be made about the executive, since it will often be the executive that either has to put flesh on the bones of the legislature’s ... and the principles they then formulate to express their role are called the law.’ 71 But this law, or the rule of law, he seems to think is not transplantable to the security field because of the

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... citizen of a particular state. The choice evidences actual acknowledgment of the value of this particular promise, whereas most citizens can only be charged with hypothetical acknowledgment of the ... system and the point of having the institution of promise – the manner in which one comes to acknowledge the value of the practice is irrelevant. This point, about the tangential nature of voluntariness ... evidences the value of a particular promise. 112 part ii: the ethics of deference Voluntariness is the only way to show that a particular promise has (or had) value to the promisor; consent to the

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... reconciles the ideal and the real, the power of ideas and the fact of power. Law reconciles the universal and the particular, uni- versalising the particular (law-making) and particularising the universal ... problem of the globalising of human society. 61 8.71 The crisis facing the European Union is a crisis of social phi- losophy, a crisis of the ideal self-constituting of a new kind of society and the ... (and the actualising of. .. From the Greek temple to the medieval cathedral to the modern cathedrals of capitalism, from the great public works of Rome to the masterpieces of

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... gather, and in the absence of robust science, there still may be a justification for change on the basis of public opinion, or the opinion of those knowledgeable of the industry. The scale of the ... animal, the cost of treatment, the 134 7 Teaching Animal Welfare value of the animal, the ability of the client to pay, and other risks, such as environmental or human health that are involved in the ... must balance the risk of the utility to the animal with the utility of the risk that they might acquire through this course of action. In all events the veterinarians should counsel their client

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:20

... with the enemy The. .. soon as they arrived there with all their forces, they fought with the Saxons, and made a grievous slaughter of them, to the number of six thousand; part of ... released them from the fatigue of their arms, which was what many of the Britons 146 Geoffrey of Monmouth desired, though the greater part of them were for having the matter quickly ... of whose mouth issued forth two rays; one of which seemed to stretch out 137 Geoffrey of Monmouth engagements. At last, towards the close of the day, the advantage was on UtherÕs side, and the

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

... 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 ... a breezy manner Use orthodox spelling 66 70 70 70 71 72 72 73 73 73 74 GLOSSARY [91 conjunction A word that joins words, phrases, clauses, or sentences The coordinating conjunctions, and, but, ... fact 46 (the) fact 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

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

... November 7, 2003 14:52 vi CONTENTS 7.ProgrammingConventions 58 7.1Preprocessor 58 7.2Declarations 63 7.3Scoping 67 7.4FunctionsandMethods 68 7.5Classes 74 7.6ClassMembers 78 7.7Operators 93 7.8Templates ... 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, ... 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

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 00:57

... within the strings ce or cu. Thus, the PCPR does not block the application of one or the other of these. Both will apply. The principle that governs the application of these ... identifies the types of elements that can undergo phonics rules, and includes among these not only letters of the alphabet, but sounds themselves. The conversion of er, ir, ... 119 from the traditional notions. Let us therefore turn to a discussion of these theoretically significant words. Our starting point is with the notion of the beat of a syllable.

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 00:21

... Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind Neural Science 247 The findings of Levi-Montalcini and Hamburger led to the formulation of the neurotrophic factor hypothesis: the idea that the survival of neurons ... shown to be relevant to the later pat- terns of connectivity of these neurons. Because of these advances, the problem of defining the mechanisms of cell fate specification in the develop- ing nervous ... defined, these are: the specification of distinct neuronal cell types; the directed out- growth of developing axons; the selection of appropriate synaptic partners; and finally, the refinement of connections

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:27

... success of sister and firmness of father, and then being “under control” of father-like figure in group home r Rejection—by father and friends at time of need r Acceptance—the need to be accepted by the ... record of dysfunctional thoughts and the homework was used to generate themes for the following session Beck (1967) wrote about the importance of having an explanation of the symptoms of anxiety ... managed within other areas of the high secure environment Alongside the containment function the services aim over the long term to reduce risk of harm to both the public and the patients themselves,

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 04:20

... avoiding 23-24, 72 worth while/worthwhile 64 would for repeated action 64-65 sparing use of 20 writing benefits of 70 difficulties with 69 ear for 77 -78 principles of 15-33 style of 66-85 ... 21-22 dialect 78 -79 dialogue adverbs in 75 attributives in 31, 75 , 76 dates and numbers in 35 paragraphing of 16 sentence fragment in 7 tense in 31 different than , misuse of 44 direct ... time, notation of 8 titles (of persons), punctuation of 3 titles (of works) 8, 38 together with , subjects joined by 10 tortuous vs. torturous 62 transition sentences of 16- 17 transitive...

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...

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