The Elements of Style = 英文寫作風格的要素
點閱：4作者：William Strunk Jr.[原作];甦活中英文編輯所[編輯]
出版年：2011
出版社：Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation 甦活全球網路
出版地：Salt Lake City, UT. 臺北市
格式：EPUB 流式
分類：英文書
The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. It originally detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, and 'a few matters
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- The Elements of Style
- Chapter 1 Introductory
- Chapter 2 Elementary Rules of Usage
- 1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's.
- 2. In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.
- 3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.
- 4. Place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.
- 5. Do not join independent clauses by a comma.
- 6. Do not break sentences in two.
- 7. A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject.
- 8. Divide words at line-ends, in accordance with their formation and pronunciation.
- Chapter 3 Elementary Principles of Composition
- 1. Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic.
- 2. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.
- 3. Use the active voice.
- 4. Put statements in positive form.
- 5. Omit needless words.
- 6. Avoid a succession of loose sentences.
- 7. Express co-ordinate ideas in similar form.
- 8. Keep related words together.
- 9. In summaries, keep to one tense.
- 10. Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end.
- Chapter 4 A Few Matters of Form
- Chapter 5 Words and Expressions Commonly Misused
- Chapter 6 Words Commonly Misspelled
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