... 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 ... clarity will not suffer. (British writers seem to exercise that choice more often than do Americans): When he describes the past the historian has to recapture the rich- ness of the momen...
... you, then, to create an appropriate tone and to avoid pomposity, say, or will put readers off. Here are a few examples of how skillful writers make tone work for them. Tone Toward Subject Toward ... conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuade, wish well meaning sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive assuming manner that se...
... 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...
... Girls don't like to be told that you have to stay home and study when they want to go to a show or go dancing. [6] So they find some other boy who doesn't have to study all the time. ... more reluctant to admit it. John Charles R. Forbes went to jail. Albert B. Fall went to jail. Alien Property Custodian Thomas W. Miller went to jail. Samuel Hopkins Adams Such plan...
... illiterate want to learn how to read. Then they want education, and then more education, and then they want their sons and daughters to become doctors and lawyers. It is frightening to see so many ... 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...
... never total and exact, what is true of one cannot necessarily be applied to the other. For example, some political thinkers have used the "simi- larity" of a state to a ship to justify ... compact not to meddle with his children under any circumstances, it would become me to let particular mode of getting rid of the gentleman alone. But if there was a bed newly made up, t...
... the process, from the seed to the crop, stops at the intermediate mechanical stage of the money. He does not grow things to feed men; not even to feed one man; not even to feed himself. The miser ... expository paragraphs are analytical. To write about any subject you must it into particulars (whether reasons or comparisons, illustrations or conse- quences) and then organize these i...
... be able to
handle the short sentence to stress particular ideas and, when
the occasion warrants, to compose brief passages in a segre-
gating style. On the whole, however, the style is too limited
for ... exactly what you want to say.
Segregating sentences are especially useful in descriptive
and narrative writing. They analyze a complicated perception
or action into its parts and ar...
... word
"campaign":
The Department of Justice began a vigorous campaign to break up
the corporate empires, to restore the free and open market, and to
plant the feet of the industry firmly on the road to competition.
Thurman ... likely to seem too elaborate
to modern readers, a less "natural" way of writing than the
segregating style or the freight-train or cumu...
... length hearkened to the terms of peace, which was concluded
with great advantage to the empire and to Holland, but none at all
to us, and clogged soon after with the famous treaty of partition.
Allowed ... those places which interested me, from a defect of eye
or of hand was totally ineffectual. Sir Walter Scott
The life story to be told of any creative worker is therefore by its
ve...