PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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Complete unabridged public-domain literary work from the Project Gutenberg archive.
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A helpful book for everyone who aspires to correct the everyday errors of speaking and writing.
Author of “Practical Synonyms,” “Pronunciation,” etc.
Philadelphia The Penn Publishing Company 1901
COPYRIGHT 1895 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
INTRODUCTION I. TASTE II. CHOICE OF WORDS III. CONTRACTIONS IV. POSSESSIVE CASE V. PRONOUNS VI. NUMBER VII. ADVERBS VIII. CONJUNCTIONS IX. CORRELATIVES X. THE INFINITIVE XI. PARTICIPLES XII. PREPOSITIONS XIII. THE ARTICLE XIV. REDUNDANCY XV. TWO NEGATIVES XVI. ACCORDANCE OF VERB WITH SUBJECT INDEX
Homer, in all probability, knew no rules of rhetoric, and was not tortured with the consideration of grammatical construction, and yet his verse will endure through time. If everybody possessed the genius of Homer, rules and cautions in writing would be unnecessary.
To-day all men speak, and most men write, but it is observed that those who most closely follow Homer’s method of writing without rules are most unlike Homer in the results. The ancient bard was a law unto himself; we need rules for our guidance.
Rules of writing are the outgrowth of the study of the characteristics and qualities of style which distinguish the best writers from those of inferior skill and ability. Grammarians and rhetoricians, according to their several lines of investigation, set forth the laws and principles governing speech, and formulate rules whereby we may follow the true, and avoid the false.
Arthur Conan Doyle
