Excerpt from The Mechanics of Writing IN order to write English in a way that befits an educated person, one must know a certain body of rules. The term rules is here used in a wide sense, including not only gen eral precepts, such as the dictum that in a sentence every part should be subservient to one principal affirmation, but also those numerous particular precepts which refuse to merge themselves into convenient generalizations - for instance, those to the effect that it is bad English to say I devote my evenings in ...
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Excerpt from The Mechanics of Writing IN order to write English in a way that befits an educated person, one must know a certain body of rules. The term rules is here used in a wide sense, including not only gen eral precepts, such as the dictum that in a sentence every part should be subservient to one principal affirmation, but also those numerous particular precepts which refuse to merge themselves into convenient generalizations - for instance, those to the effect that it is bad English to say I devote my evenings in study for I devote my even oings to study, that the verb except should not be used in the sense of accept, nor the noun principle in the sense of the adjective principal, and that all right should be written as two words, the first spelled with two i's. When I say that one must know these rules, I mean that one must not merely be acquainted with them, but habitually observe them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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