the elements of style 60 minutes to better writing grammar

... 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 ... look, for the secrets of style, to the study of the masters of literature. Chapter II ELEMENTARY RULES OF USAGE 1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with ’s Follow this rule whatever the final ... voice is to be 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

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... remove the special objects of his scorn I have tried, instead, to preserve the flavor of his discontent while slightly enlarging the scope ofthe discussion The Ele-ments of Style does not pretend to ... shape today Style rules of this sort are, of course, somewhat a matter of individual preference, and even the established rules of grammar are open to challenge Professor Strunk, although one of the ... they say "the question as to whether" and that they should just say "whether"-a saving of four words out of a possible five The professor devotes a speCial paragraph to the vile expression

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2021, 16:44

... take the advantage of this strategy To sum up, the data have revealed that the use of some strategies contributes to the better writing results of the first-year students while the use of others ... presented in the previous section Post-test on the students’ writing proficiency and frequency of using LS The students took the official final test in which they had to perform a writing task Their ... reports the better performance of students in the post test compared to the pre-test The mean of students’ scores in the post test was 0.7 point higher than in the pre-test All the indices of the

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2021, 11:57

... with the circlet of a crown, or the rim of a crystal cup, in the heart of their picture, they would twist their capitals of columns and towers of churches about in the background in the most wanton ... gleams of light In the darkness of ground there is the light of the little pebbles or dust; in the darkness of foliage, the glitter of the leaves; in the darkness of flesh, transparency; in that of ... be able to draw the creature So the cloudings on a piece of wood, carefully drawn, will be the best introduction to the drawing of the clouds of the sky, or the waves of the sea; and the dead

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:21

... expose them to the knowledge of the surrounding world so that they can take part in it Being provided with models, learners are able to be unbridled from the fears of writing Furthermore, the approach ... practitioners of the genre approach attempt to make students aware of the differences between the genres to aid their writing Swale‘s definition introduces genre as ―a class of communicative events, the ... find writing the most difficult and heavy lessons to follow because either they lack vocabulary and ideas or they do not know the text organizations They have the tendency to translate their

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:29

... choice of these activities depends on a number of factors such as the time available, the material available, the ability of the class, the interest of the class, the interest of the teacher, the place ... the help of a t-test analytical tool A copy of the questionnaire was delivered to the students in the experimental group after the teaching experiment to investigate their attitudes towards these ... from the whole – their prior knowledge and their content and rhetorical schemata – to the parts In other words, listeners use what they know of the content of communication to predict what the

Ngày tải lên: 10/05/2021, 23:40

... being the candidate for the degree of Master in T.E.S.O.L accept the requirements of the University relating to the retention and use of Master’s theses deposited in the Library In terms of these ... on all of the four steps in the process of learning, especially the second step, Video clip, then, is one of the new tools that have become available for educators to impact the process of learning ... relates to the issues of focusing on the received information within the learning environment In this step, learners use their senses to collect the information spreading to them by their teacher, their

Ngày tải lên: 16/05/2021, 12:59

... ngoài 2013 – đợt BÀI TẬP CUỐI KY MÔN: TRƯỜNG PHÁI HÌNH THỨC NGA Chapter seven: The Elements of the Artistic Construction Chương 7: Những thành tố của cấu trúc nghệ thuật Thể ... đặc điểm Don Quixote hoàn toàn khác Không có sự ngẫu nhiên nào để người hùng của nó được “Heine tụng ca và khiến Turgenev “thèm thuồng”” Ta hoàn toàn có thể không đồng ... đó Đây là định nghĩa của Tomashevskii về sự thống nhất chủ đề tác phẩm: Những câu hỏi phong phú của sự biểu đạt nghệ thuật được kết hợp theo ý nghĩa và thành quả

Ngày tải lên: 09/06/2021, 11:05

... that they are going to learn - Listen to the teacher how to predict the content of the text from its first sentence, and how to use their background knowledge of the text content to predict the ... on the topic “Theft Crimes” - Elicit what to think of when writing an assignment on the topic “Theft crimes” Students’ activities - Talk about what to think of when writing an assignment on the ... background that is relevant to the purpose of the study The following chapter shows the setting, the subjects, the methods, the way to collect data and the effects of using top-down approach in teaching

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2022, 08:42

... by the need to debug or to alter the program, would you be likely to go back and puzzle out the precise meaning A better version of the fragment is C MAKE V AN IDENTITY MATRIX Trang 152 THE ELEMENTS ... it has no other connections with the rest of the program The logical IF reduces the apparent complexity of the program Occasionally the third branch of an arithmetic IF can serve to direct an ... from the 48-character set into the 60-character set.) (2) We regularly abstract parts of programs to focus better on the essential points We believe that the failings we discuss are inherent in the

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2022, 15:38

... background that is relevant to the purpose of the study The following chapter shows the setting, the subjects, the methods, the way to collect data and the effects of using top-down approach in teaching ... approaching the text under the close guidance of the teacher or under the guidance of a task which forces the students to pay great attention to the text in order to arrive at a profound to detailed ... Among those concepts that the readers use in the process of comprehension, the knowledge about the content of the text, rather than the knowledge of the language of the text, is emphasized As

Ngày tải lên: 05/12/2022, 22:37

... important phase, too often neglected in the past We have revised The Elements of Programming Style extensively to reflect these changes The first edition avoided any direct mention of the term "structured ... 8PREFACE to the Second Edition The practice of computer programming has changed since The Elements of Pro-gramming Style first appeared Programming style has become a legitimate topic of discussion ... textbook examples often demonstrate the state of the art of computer programming all too well (We have done our best to play fair - we don't think that any of the programs are made to look bad by

Ngày tải lên: 01/03/2023, 16:20

... variables.Limitations of the StudyThe number of learners taken into the study is a limitation to the study Only 87 learners, 41 for the control group and 46 for the experimental group, may fail to generalize the ... summing the weighted scores of the five components, dividing by five, and rounding to the nearest half point The average of the three scores from the examiners was then computed for further analysis, ... variables The number of learners taken into the study is a limitation to the study Only 87 learners, 41 for the control group and 46 for the experimental group, may fail to generalize the results

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2023, 20:35

... expose them to the knowledge of the surrounding world so that they can take part in it Being provided with models, learners are able to be unbridled from the fears of writing Furthermore, the approach ... practitioners of the genre approach attempt to make students aware of the differences between the genres to aid their writing Swale‘s definition introduces genre as ―a class of communicative events, the ... find writing the most difficult and heavy lessons to follow because either they lack vocabulary and ideas or they do not know the text organizations They have the tendency to translate their

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2023, 02:19

... element of the unpredictable must inevitably be taken into account. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the ... 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 ... 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 to give in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 00:15