Essential guide to writing part 14
... upon none of these signals. Yet they too need to be emphatic. What they must do, in effect, is to trans- late loudness, intonation, gesture, and so on, into writing. Equivalents are available. ... beings suffer? How long? Michael Harrington Even here, however, Harrington is trying not so much to elicit an answer as he is to convince us that allowing poverty to continue is indefens...
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Essential guide to writing part 26
... some manner, to live, and look tolerably well, notwithstanding their despair and the continued absence of their lover; and some have even been known to recover so far as to be inclined to take another ... www.tailieuduhoc.org STOPS following sentence is an example (the Duke of Wellington is commenting with pleasant cynicism upon the capacity of young ladies to endure the absence of...
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Essential guide to writing part 8
... illiterate want to learn how to read. Then they want education, and then more education, and then they want their sons and daughters to become doctors and lawyers. It is frightening to see so many ... accustomed to the law and order of the present day to understand the dangers which threatened the Jacobean trav- eller. The seas swarmed with pirates; so that few merchantmen dared...
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Essential guide to writing part 27
... that is still one hell a pile of pulp. Pauline To revert for a moment to the story told in the first person, it is plain that in that case the narrator has no such liberty. . . . Percy Comma with ... clarity will not suffer. (British writers seem to exercise that choice more often than do Americans): When he describes the past the historian has to recapture the rich- ness of the momen...
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