essential guide to writing part 15
Essential guide to writing part 15
... spirit.) The average autochthonous Irishman is close to patriotism because he is close to the earth; he is close to domesticity because he is close to the earth; he is close to doctrinal theology ... election, each party promises to make the city bigger and better. . . . Each party, before the election, promises to make the city bigger and better. . . . Now the clause is organized into potential ... married man. Polysyndeton and Asyndeton Despite their formidable names, polysyndeton and asyndeton are nothing more than different ways of handling a list or series. Polysyndeton places a conjunction...
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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 lovers gone to war): They ... using commas with adverbials must be understood as loose gener- alizations, which skillful writers frequently ignore or adapt to their particular need to be emphatic or clear or rhythmic. Single-Word...
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Essential guide to writing part 8
... 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 to put to sea ... relics, and gave his life into the guidance of his spiritual director. The Protestant tore open the machinery of the miracles, flung the bones and ragged garments into the fire, and treated priests ... subject in its totality. Organ- izing around 1, 2, and 3 emphasizes particular likenesses or differences. It all depends on what you want to do. In the following case the writer elected to organize...
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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 ... visit www.tailieuduhoc.org STOPS But when more or less is used in a strict disjunctive that is, to mean either more or less, but not must be set off by commas: It is hard to say whether the payment ... is less formal: short, says the historian Friedrich the crusades were pro- moted with all the devices of the stories, over-simplification, lies, inflammatory speeches. Morris Bishop The Dash...
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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. ... suddenly began to rain. 2. Suddenly, it began to rain. If we suppose that the writer wished to draw our attention to "suddenly," sentence (2) is better. By moving it to the opening ... from the noun to the participle (or predicative word). Sometimes an entire adverbial clause can be cut back to the operative participle. WORDY Because they were tired, the men returned to camp. CONCISE...
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Essential guide to writing part 28
... Victorian monstrosities, "this area [it was one of his favorite words] is very rich in antiquity." Aldous Huxley Sometimes, too, it is necessary to alter a quotation slightly to it into ... interpretation." Often written quotations are worked into the text in a smoother manner by an introductory that. The that requires no stop since it turns the quotation into a noun clause acting as the direct ... exclamation points, placement depends on whether the stop applies only to the quotation, only to the sentence containing the quotation, or to both. When the quotation is a question (or exclamation) and...
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Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 16 pdf
... about Toronto? What can one? What has any- body ever said? It is impossible to give it anything but commen- dation. is not squalid like Birmingham, or cramped Canton, or scattered like Edmonton, ... has purpose. The purpose may be to signify is, to refer to an object or person other than the writer, to an abstract conception such as "democracy," or to a thought or feeling in the ... used to emphasize a key idea. In the following passage the historian Herbert But- moves through two long sentences (the second a bit shorter than the to a strong short statement: The Whig historian...
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Tài liệu Essential guide to writing part 17 docx
... to overcome masculine resistance to toilet- ries as "sissy" (or perhaps to appeal to women, who buy most of these products for their men).3 Emotionally loaded diction is also the stock-in-trade ... observations, ideas, feelings, and affecting their responses both to the topic and to you in ways that you wish. To the degree that it fails to achieve your purpose, your diction fails entirely.4 4. ... error to pick words that mean too much, to name an entire class when what you wish to signify is something less: Thrift is not one of their attributes. (For virtues) The novel has far too many...
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