A First Book In Writing English

About this eBook

Author

Lewis, Edwin Herbert, 1866-1938

Title

A First Book in Writing English

Credits

Produced by Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Composition and exercises

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 62265

Release Date

May 28, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTORY EXPLANATIONS — A FIRST BOOK IN WRITING ENGLISH
5. 5.CHAPTER I THE ART OF WRITING ENGLISH
6. 6.CHAPTER II ON READING ALOUD, AND ON SPELLING
7. 7.CHAPTER III A REVIEW OF PUNCTUATION — Capitals. — The Comma. — The Semicolon. — The Colon. — The Dash. — Quotation Marks. — Brackets. — The Exclamation Point. — The Interrogation Point. — Italics. — The Apostrophe. — Asterisks. — Common Abbreviations.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV GRAMMATICAL PHASES OF WRITING ENGLISH — Concord of Subject and Predicate. — Concord of Adjective (or Participle) and Noun. — Concord of Pronoun and Antecedent. — Concord of Cases. — Concord of Tenses. — Government. — On the Reference of Pronouns. — Conjunctions and Prepositions. — Adverb or Adjective? — Matters of Etymology.
9. 9.CHAPTER V ON DIVIDING A PARAGRAPH INTO SENTENCES
10. 10.CHAPTER VI ON WELL-KNIT SENTENCES
11. 11.CHAPTER VII ON ORGANIZING THE THEME
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII ON CORRECTNESS IN CHOICE OF WORDS — Nouns — Ability, capacity. — Acceptance, acceptation. — Access, accession. — Act, action. — Advance, advancement. — Alternative, choice. — Avocation, vocation. — Balance, remainder. — Character, reputation. — Compliment, complement. — Council, counsel. — Falseness, falsity. — Invention, discovery. — Limit, limitation. — Majority, plurality. — Observation, observance. — Observation, remark. — Party, person. — Part, portion. — Prominent, predominant. — Recipe, receipt. — Relative, relation. — Residence, house. — Sewage, sewerage. — Site, situation. — Verbs — Accept, except. — Affect, effect. — Aggravate, irritate, tantalize. — Allude, mention. — Antagonize, alienate. — Begin, commence. — Bring, fetch. — Claim, assert, etc. — Degrade, demean, debase. — Drive, ride. — Endorse, approve, second. — Got, gotten, have. — Guess, think, reckon. — Intend, calculate. — Let, leave. — Lie, lay. — Locate, settle. — Loan, lend. — May, can. — Proved, proven. — Purpose, propose. — Sit, set. — Stay, stop. — Transpire, happen. — Wish, want, desire. — Adjectives and Adverbs — Apt, likely, liable. — Continual, continuous. — Funny, odd. — Healthy, healthful. — Imminent, eminent, immanent. — In, into. — Last, latest. — Last, preceding. — Mad, angry. — Most, almost. — Mutual, common. — Oral, verbal. — Posted, informed. — Practicable, practical. — Quite, somewhat, very, rather, entirely, wholly. — Real, really, extremely. — Some, somewhat. — Without, unless.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX SOURCES OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY
14. 14.CHAPTER X THE MASTERY OF A WRITING VOCABULARY — ENGLISH PROVERBS [43] — Groups of Synonyms [44]
15. 15.CHAPTER XI RIGHT NUMBER AND SKILFUL CHOICE OF WORDS
16. 16.CHAPTER XII LETTER-WRITING
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII REPRODUCTION, ABSTRACT, SUMMARY, ABRIDGMENT — Material for Literal Reproduction — Narration — Description — Exposition — Material for Summary, Abstract, Abridgment — Narration — Description — Argument [52]
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV NARRATION AND DESCRIPTION — Narration — Description — Suggested Topics for Description
19. 19.CHAPTER XV EXPOSITION AND ARGUMENT — Exposition — Subjects for Exposition — Argument — Subjects for Argument or Debate
20. 20.FOOTNOTES
21. 21.SUBJECT INDEX
22. 22.INDEX OF AUTHORS QUOTED

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