A First Book in Writing English
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Chapters (416)
- A FIRST BOOK IN WRITING ENGLISH
- CHAPTER I THE ART OF WRITING ENGLISH
- CHAPTER II ON READING ALOUD, AND ON SPELLING
- CHAPTER III A REVIEW OF PUNCTUATION
- Capitals.
- The Comma.
- The Semicolon.
- The Colon.
- The Dash.
- Quotation Marks.
- Brackets.
- The Exclamation Point.
- The Interrogation Point.
- Italics.
- The Apostrophe.
- Asterisks.
- Common Abbreviations.
- CHAPTER IV GRAMMATICAL PHASES OF WRITING ENGLISH
- Concord of Subject and Predicate.
- Concord of Adjective (or Participle) and Noun.
- Concord of Pronoun and Antecedent.
- Concord of Cases.
- Concord of Tenses.
- Government.
- On the Reference of Pronouns.
- Conjunctions and Prepositions.
- Adverb or Adjective?
- Matters of Etymology.
- CHAPTER V ON DIVIDING A PARAGRAPH INTO SENTENCES
- CHAPTER VI ON WELL-KNIT SENTENCES
- CHAPTER VII ON ORGANIZING THE THEME
- CHAPTER VIII ON CORRECTNESS IN CHOICE OF WORDS
- Nouns
- Ability, capacity.
- Acceptance, acceptation.
- Access, accession.
- Act, action.
- Advance, advancement.
- Alternative, choice.
- Avocation, vocation.
- Balance, remainder.
- Character, reputation.
- Compliment, complement.
- Council, counsel.
- Falseness, falsity.
- Invention, discovery.
- Limit, limitation.
- Majority, plurality.
- Observation, observance.
- Observation, remark.
- Party, person.
- Part, portion.
- Prominent, predominant.
- Recipe, receipt.
- Relative, relation.
- Residence, house.
- Sewage, sewerage.
- Site, situation.
- Verbs
- Accept, except.
- Affect, effect.
- Aggravate, irritate, tantalize.
- Allude, mention.
- Antagonize, alienate.
- Begin, commence.
- Bring, fetch.
- Claim, assert, etc.
- Degrade, demean, debase.
- Drive, ride.
- Endorse, approve, second.
- Got, gotten, have.
- Guess, think, reckon.
- Intend, calculate.
- Let, leave.
- Lie, lay.
- Locate, settle.
- Loan, lend.
- May, can.
- Proved, proven.
- Purpose, propose.
- Sit, set.
- Stay, stop.
- Transpire, happen.
- Wish, want, desire.
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Apt, likely, liable.
- Continual, continuous.
- Funny, odd.
- Healthy, healthful.
- Imminent, eminent, immanent.
- In, into.
- Last, latest.
- Last, preceding.
- Mad, angry.
- Most, almost.
- Mutual, common.
- Oral, verbal.
- Posted, informed.
- Practicable, practical.
- Quite, somewhat, very, rather, entirely, wholly.
- Real, really, extremely.
- Some, somewhat.
- Without, unless.
- CHAPTER IX SOURCES OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY
- CHAPTER X THE MASTERY OF A WRITING VOCABULARY
- ENGLISH PROVERBS[43]
- Groups of Synonyms[44]
- CHAPTER XI RIGHT NUMBER AND SKILFUL CHOICE OF WORDS
- CHAPTER XII LETTER-WRITING
- CHAPTER XIII REPRODUCTION, ABSTRACT, SUMMARY, ABRIDGMENT
- Material for Literal Reproduction
- Narration
- Description
- Exposition
- Material for Summary, Abstract, Abridgment
- Narration
- Description
- Argument[52]
- CHAPTER XIV NARRATION AND DESCRIPTION
- Narration
- Description
- Suggested Topics for Description
- CHAPTER XV EXPOSITION AND ARGUMENT
- Exposition
- Subjects for Exposition
- Argument
- Subjects for Argument or Debate
- FOOTNOTES
- SUBJECT INDEX
- INDEX OF AUTHORS QUOTED
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