How to Speak and Write Correctly
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The classic text on how to speak and write English 'correctly.' *** "In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, To make it serviceable for those for whom it is intended, that is, for those who have neither the time nor the opportunity, the learning nor the inclination, to peruse elaborate and abstruse treatises on Rhetoric, Grammar, and Composition. To them such works are as gold enclosed in chests of steel and locked beyond power of opening. This book has no pretension about it whatever, -it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, ...
Chapters (146)
- HOW TO SPEAK AND WRITE CORRECTLY
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I
- REQUIREMENTS OF SPEECH
- Vocabulary—Parts of Speech—Requisites
- THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN A NUTSHELL
- DEFINITIONS
- THREE ESSENTIALS
- CHAPTER II
- ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR
- Divisions of Grammar—Definitions—Etymology.
- DIVISIONS OF GRAMMAR
- LETTERS
- SYLLABLES AND WORDS
- THE PARTS OF SPEECH ARTICLE
- NOUN
- ADJECTIVE
- PRONOUN
- THE VERB
- TENSE
- MOOD
- TO BE
- VOICE
- CONJUGATION
- PRINCIPAL PARTS
- Infinitive Mood
- Indicative Mood
- Imperative Mood
- Subjunctive Mood
- CONJUGATION OF "To Love"
- Passive Voice Indicative Mood
- Imperative Mood
- Subjunctive Mood
- ADVERB
- PREPOSITION
- CONJUNCTION
- INTERJECTION
- CHAPTER III
- THE SENTENCE
- Different Kinds—Arrangement of Words—Paragraph
- ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE
- SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION
- THE PARAGRAPH
- CHAPTER IV
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
- Figures of Speech—Definitions and Examples —Use of Figures
- CHAPTER V
- PUNCTUATION
- Principal Points—Illustrations—Capital Letters.
- CAPITAL LETTERS
- CHAPTER VI
- LETTER WRITING
- Principles of Letter-Writing—Forms—Notes
- THE HEADING
- SUBSCRIPTION
- ADDRESS
- NOTES
- FORMAL INVITATIONS
- NOTES OF INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER VII
- ERRORS
- Mistakes—Slips of Authors—Examples and Corrections—Errors of Redundancy.
- GRAMMATICAL ERRORS OF STANDARD AUTHORS
- CHAPTER VIII
- PITFALLS TO AVOID
- Common Stumbling Blocks—Peculiar Constructions—Misused Forms.
- ATTRACTION
- ELLIPSIS
- THE SPLIT INFINITIVE
- ONE
- ONLY
- ALONE
- OTHER AND ANOTHER
- AND WITH THE RELATIVE
- LOOSE PARTICIPLES
- BROKEN CONSTRUCTION
- DOUBLE NEGATIVE
- FIRST PERSONAL PRONOUN
- SEQUENCE OF TENSES
- BETWEEN—AMONG
- LESS—FEWER
- FURTHER—FARTHER
- EACH OTHER—ONE ANOTHER
- EACH, EVERY, EITHER, NEITHER
- NEITHER-NOR
- NONE
- RISE-RAISE
- LAY-LIE
- SAYS I—I SAID
- IN—INTO
- EAT—ATE
- SEQUENCE OF PERSON
- AM COME—HAVE COME
- PAST TENSE—PAST PARTICIPLE
- PREPOSITIONS AND THE OBJECTIVE CASE
- SUMMON—SUMMONS
- UNDENIABLE—UNEXCEPTIONABLE
- THE PRONOUNS
- THAT FOR SO
- THESE—THOSE
- THIS MUCH—THUS MUCH
- FLEE—FLY
- THROUGH—THROUGHOUT
- VOCATION AND AVOCATION
- WAS—WERE
- A OR AN
- CHAPTER IX
- STYLE
- Diction—Purity—Propriety—Precision.
- DICTION
- PURITY
- PROPRIETY
- SIMPLICITY
- CLEARNESS
- UNITY
- STRENGTH
- HARMONY
- EXPRESSIVE OF WRITER
- KINDS OF STYLE
- CHAPTER X
- SUGGESTIONS
- How to Write—What to Write—Correct Speaking and Speakers
- CHAPTER XI
- SLANG
- Origin—American Slang—Foreign Slang
- CHAPTER XII
- WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS
- Qualification—Appropriate Subjects—Directions
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHOICE OF WORDS
- Small Words—Their Importance—The Anglo-Saxon Element
- CHAPTER XIV
- ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- Beginning—Different Sources—The Present
- CHAPTER XV
- MASTERS AND MASTERPIECES OF LITERATURE
- Great Authors—Classification—The World's Best Books.
- INDISPENSABLE BOOKS
- A GOOD LIBRARY
- MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
- TEN GREATEST AMERICAN POETS
- TEN GREATEST ENGLISH POETS
- TEN GREATEST ENGLISH ESSAYISTS
- BEST PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
- ONLY THE GOOD
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