How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition

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Abbott Edwin Abbott. How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition

PREFACE

INDEX OF RULES

I. CLEARNESS AND FORCE. WORDS

ORDER OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE

II. BREVITY

CLEARNESS AND FORCE

WORDS

ORDER OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE

BREVITY

EXERCISES

CONTINUOUS EXERCISES

CLEARNESS

BURNET

BISHOP BUTLER

BREVITY

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1. Use words in their proper sense.

2. Avoid exaggerations.

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*(f) What.*—"Let me repeat that which9 you ought to know, that that which is worth doing is worth doing well." "Let me repeat, what you ought to know, that what is worth doing is worth doing well."

*(g) Omission of Relative.*—It is sometimes thought ungrammatical to omit the relative, as in "The man (that) you speak of." On the contrary, that when an object (not when a subject) may be omitted, wherever the antecedent and the subject of the relative sentence are brought into juxtaposition by the omission.

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