By Jr. William Strunk, E. B. White
The weather of favor is a prescriptive American English writing variety advisor in different versions. the unique used to be composed by way of William Strunk Jr., in 1918, and released via Harcourt, in 1920, comprising 8 "elementary ideas of usage", ten "elementary ideas of composition", "a few issues of form", a listing of forty nine "words and expressions often misused", and a listing of fifty seven "words frequently misspelled". E. B. White a lot enlarged and revised the booklet for booklet through Macmillan, in 1959. That used to be the 1st variation of the so-called "Strunk & White", which era named in 2011 one of many a hundred top and such a lot influential books written in English considering 1923.[2]
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Often simply redundant, used from a mere habit of wordiness. acts of a hosble character hosble acts MISUSED WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS [43 Cldirn (verb). ) Not to be used as a substitute for declare, maintain, or charge. He claimed he knew how. He declared be knew bow. Clever. Note that the word means one thing when applied to men, another when applied to horses. A clever horse is a good-natured one, not an ingenious one. ComfJare. To comp<11e to is to point out or imply resemblances between objects regarded as essentially of a different order; to comfJ A quotation grammatically in apposition or the direct object of a verb is preceded by a comma and enclosed in quotation marks. " When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is enclosed within the quotation marks. "I can't attend," she said. Typographical usage dictates that the comma be inside the marks, though logically it often seems not to belong there. A FEW MATTERS OF FORM [37 'The Clerks," "Luke Havergal," and "Richard Cory" are in Robinson's Children of the Night. When quotations of an entire line, or more, of either verse or prose are to be distinguished typographically from text matter, as are the quotations in this book, begin on a fresh line and indent. An exception may be made of sentences of transition, indicating the relation between the parts of an exposition or argument. In dialogue, each speech, even if only a single word, is usually a paragraph by itself; that is, a new paragraph begins with each change of speaker. The application of this rule when dialogue and narrative are combined is best learned from examples in well-edited works of fietion. Sometimes a writer, seeking to create an effect of rapid talk or for some other reason, will elect not to set off each speech in a separate paragraph and instead will run speeches together.