The Mechanics of Writing: A Compendium of Rules Regarding Manuscript-arrangement, Spelling, the Compounding of Words, Abbreviations, the Representation of Numbers, Syllabication, the Use of Capitals, the Use of Italics, Punctuation, and ParagraphingD.C. Heath & Company, 1909 - 396 pàgines |
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Pàgina vii
... fault and gives the student information to this effect : " An expression such as he says , he thinks , or he hears interpolated in a relative clause does not affect the case of the subject of the clause . For example , ' The man who I ...
... fault and gives the student information to this effect : " An expression such as he says , he thinks , or he hears interpolated in a relative clause does not affect the case of the subject of the clause . For example , ' The man who I ...
Pàgina x
... fault and the period fault , those twin vices so common and yet so baffling the despair of teachers . " twin vices " because it is clear that they spring from one fundamental deficiency - failure to recognize the dis- tinction between ...
... fault and the period fault , those twin vices so common and yet so baffling the despair of teachers . " twin vices " because it is clear that they spring from one fundamental deficiency - failure to recognize the dis- tinction between ...
Pàgina xiii
... fault remonstrates , " Stevenson does it , " the obvious answer is , of course , " You are not Stevenson . " This sounds like a flippant evasion , but in reality is eminently ( though per ... fault and the period fault . These PREFACE xiii.
... fault remonstrates , " Stevenson does it , " the obvious answer is , of course , " You are not Stevenson . " This sounds like a flippant evasion , but in reality is eminently ( though per ... fault and the period fault . These PREFACE xiii.
Pàgina xiv
... fault and the period fault . These are not laid down with the claim that they cannot be violated without incorrectness ; but violation or lax observance of them by inexperienced writers means incessant blundering , and a slovenliness of ...
... fault and the period fault . These are not laid down with the claim that they cannot be violated without incorrectness ; but violation or lax observance of them by inexperienced writers means incessant blundering , and a slovenliness of ...
Pàgina xxi
... fault 255 ; 683 , 719 , 720 A MORE COMPLETE SYSTEM OF SEPARATIVE PUNCTUATION Purpose 256 End punctuation Declarative and imperative predications General rule 257 , 684 , 685 Period In general 258 Before and , but , for , etc ...
... fault 255 ; 683 , 719 , 720 A MORE COMPLETE SYSTEM OF SEPARATIVE PUNCTUATION Purpose 256 End punctuation Declarative and imperative predications General rule 257 , 684 , 685 Period In general 258 Before and , but , for , etc ...
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The Mechanics of Writing: A Compendium of Rules Regarding Manuscript ... Edwin Campbell Woolley Visualització completa - 1909 |
The Mechanics of Writing: A Compendium of Rules Regarding Manuscript ... Edwin Campbell Woolley Visualització completa - 1909 |
The Mechanics of Writing: A Compendium of Rules Regarding Manuscript ... Edwin Campbell Woolley Visualització completa - 1909 |
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abbreviations adjective adverbial phrase appositive athletics beginning called Canon of Unity capitalized cation colon comma fault complete independent predication composition compound conjunctive adverbs coördinate dash dependent clause Elliptical clauses enclosed end punctuation English essay example exclamation mark Exercises expression following sentences gerund Grammatical Vocabulary graphing high school hyphened indention inflectional interior punctuation interpolated introduced italicized letter means modifier never noun object Omission of second omitted paragraph division paren parenthetic participle passage person plural preceded preposition present principal pronouns punctuating correctly question quotation marks relative clause scanty and scrappy scrappy paragraph semicolon separate or component separative punctuation simple predication separate singular stand Study Rules substantive suffix syllable taken tences TENSE thing thou thought thought-component tion tive Topic Rule 550 usually verbs e.g. violation vocative woman words Write the following written solid
Passatges populars
Pàgina 297 - Hence loathed Melancholy Of Cerberus and blackest midnight born, In Stygian Cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There, under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Pàgina 348 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Pàgina 298 - Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses; And then in haste her bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tanned haycock in the mead.
Pàgina 14 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Pàgina 296 - Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Pàgina 14 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Pàgina 293 - The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines.
Pàgina 296 - Blissful, they turned them to go : but the fairtressed Pallas Athene Rose, like a pillar of tall white cloud, toward silver Olympus ; Far above ocean and shore, and the peaks of the isles and the mainland ; Where no frost nor storm is, in clear blue windless abysses, High in the home of the summer, the seats of the happy Immortals, Shrouded in keen deep blaze, unapproachable; there ever youthful Hebe...
Pàgina 115 - TWENTY years ago, there was no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England, nor any more pathetic, in the world, by its expression of sweet human character and life, than that immediately bordering on the sources of the...
Pàgina 124 - But, alas! you are not all here! Time and the sword have thinned your ranks. Prescott, Putnam, Stark, Brooks, Read, Pomeroy, Bridge! our eyes seek for you in vain amid this broken band. You are gathered to your fathers, and live only to your country in her grateful remembrance and your own bright example.