CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1. Composition and Compositions
2. Purpose of This Book
3. Your Advantage
4. Your Special Difficulties
5. Rhetoric
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1. Composition and Compositions
2. Purpose of This Book
3. Your Advantage
4. Your Special Difficulties
5. Rhetoric
CHAPTER II MECHANICS OF COMPOSITION
6. Materials
7. One Side or Two Sides?
8. Margins
9. Spacing
10. Titles
11. Paging
12. Folding
13. Endorsing
14. Spelling
15. Syllabication
16. Underlining
17. Italics
18. Omissions, Corrections, and Insertions
19. A Warning
CHAPTER III LEARNING TO WRITE
20. Something to Say
21. How to Say It
22. A Consolation
23. Others May Have Said It before You
24. What to Read
25. How to Read
26. Some Dictionaries Recommended
27. Self-cultivation
28. Writing from Memory
29. Imitation, Conscious and Unconscious
30. Reading Dictionaries
31. Expressing Another Person’s Thoughts
32. Paraphrasing Sentences
33. Suggestions for Paraphrasing
34. Paraphrasing Paragraphs
35. Paraphrasing Verse
36. Condensing
37. Various Degrees of Condensation
38. Suggestions for Condensing
39. Using Materia1 in Han
40. Expressing Your Own Thoughts
41. Keeping a Diary
42. Choosing a Subject
43. Choosing a Title
44. Taking Notes
45. Making an Outline
46. Note-taking and Outline-making in the Head
47. Making Outlines of What You Read
48. Expanding an Outline
49. Practice in Composition
CHAPTER IV WRITING CORRECTLY
50. What is Correct English?
51. Usage
52. Present-day Usage
53. Neologisms
54. English and American Usage
55. Good Usage
56. Expressions Outside of Good Usage
57. Colloquialisms Etc in Written English
58. You are Quite Safe
59. How You Violate Usage
CHAPTER V WRITING CORRECTLY (Continued)
60. Grammar
61. Idiom
62. Grammar and Idiom
63. About the Study of Grammar
64. About the Study of Idiom
65. Some Books Recommended
66. Make Your Own Dictionary of Usage
67. Exercises in Grammar
68. Proper Nouns Used as Common Nouns
69. Nouns Used as Adjectives
70. Singulars and Plurals
71. Nouns Singular Only
72. Nouns Plural Usually or Plural Only
73. Nouns Plural in a Special Usage
74. Nouns of Multitude
75. Abstract Nouns in Plural
76. Material Nouns in Plural
77. Nouns Ending in “-ics”
78. Some Miscellaneous Nouns
79. Numerals in Plural
80. Number in Nouns Used as Adjectives
81. Number and Articles
82. Plural Subject with Singular Verb
83. Some Knotty Points of Number
84. Gender and Sex
85. Male or Female Beings Considered Neuter
86. Animals Considered Masculine or Feminine Without Reference to Sex
87. Sexless Things Considered Masculine or Feminine
88. Masculine and Feminine Nouns Used as Nouns of Common Gender
89. Feminine Nouns Ending in “-ess”
90. Nouns Ending in “-man”
91. Words of Common Gender Made Masculine or Feminine
92. Gender and Number
93. Possessive Case and Of-phrase
94. Subjective and Objective Meanings
95. Possessive Plurals
96. Noun Phrases and Possessive Case
97. “’S” Repeated and “Of” Repeated
98. Possessive Case and Lifeless Things
99. Idiomatic Uses of Possessive Case
100. Noun Omitted after Possessive
101. “Of” before Possessive
102. One Noun in Two Cases
103. Pronoun and its Antecedent
104. Lack of a Common-gender Third-person-singular Pronoun
105. A Question of Person
106. Case in Pronouns
107. Objective Used as Predicate Nominative
108. Interrogative “Who” Used as Objective
109. Relative “Whom” Used as Nominative
110. “Whom” Used after “Than”
111. Nominative or Objective after “But”?
112. A Curious Case of Agreement
113. National, Editorial, and Generic Uses of “We”
114. Generic Use of “You” and “Your”
115. Indefinite Use of “They”
116. Generic Use of “One” and “One’s”
117. Idiomatic Uses of “It”
118. Two Distinct Constructions of “It ... That”
119. Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses
120. The Relative Pronouns “Who”, “Which”, and “That”
121. Three Points of Choice between “Who(m)” and “Which”
122. Two Relative Clauses Linked by “And” or “But”
123. Omission of Relative Pronouns
124. “Which” without Definite Antecedent
125. “As” as Relative Pronoun
126. “Who” as Indefinite Relative Pronoun
127. “What” Preceding Statement
128. “One Another” and “Each Other”
129. Adjectives Used as Nouns
130. Exact Senses of Adjectives
131. A Curious Point about Comparatives
132. Two Curious Uses of Superlatives
133. “A Most” Followed by Adjective
134. “Worth” Taking an Object
135. “The Matter”
136. “Nothing Much”
137. Articles
138. “A” and Abstract Nouns
139. Some Words Often Mistaken for Abstract Nouns
140. Generic Use of Articles
141. Position of “A” (or “An”)
142. “The” Giving Common Noun Abstract Sense
143. Articles and Proper Nouns
144. Omission of Articles
145. Repetition of Articles
143. Final Remarks on Articles
147. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
148. Absolute Use of Transitive Verbs
149. Copulative Verbs
150. Factitive Verbs
151. Verbs Taking Double Object
152. Tense and Time
153. Present Tense Referring to Future
154. Present Tense Referring to Past
155. Past Tense Referring to Future
156. Present Perfect Tense vs Past Tense
157. Past Perfect Tense
158. Perfect Tense vs Factitive “Have” with Past Participle as Complement
159. Continuous Tenses
160. “Always” with Continuous Tenses
161. “Be” in Continuous Tenses
162. “Used” Followed by Infinitive
163. “Be” Followed by Infinitive
164. “Have” Followed by Infinitive
165. Infinitive without “to”
166. Split Infinitives
167. “To” Standing for Infinitive
168. “To” Followed by Gerund
169. Infinitive or Gerund?
170. “Enough” Qualified by Infinitive
171. “Too” Qualified by Infinitive
172. Active and Passive Infinitives
173. Active and Passive Gerunds
174. Gerunds Used as Adjectives
175. Gerund and Possessive
176. Fused Participles
177. Present Participle Separated from Subject by Predicate Verb
178. Unattached Participles
179. Intransitive Past Participles Used as Adjectives
180. “Shall” and “Will”, “Should” and “Would”
181. Subjunctive Mood
182. Sequence of Tenses
183. “The” as Adverb
184. Double Adverbial “The”
185. Quasi-adverbs
186. Prepositions
187. Idiomatic Uses of Prepositions
188. Prepositions before Particular Nouns
189. Prepositions after Particular Words
190. Omission of Prepositions
191. Prepositions Governing Words Other than Nouns and Pronouns
192. That-clause in Apposition to Nouns
193. That-clause Qualifying Adjectives and Past Participles
194. That-clause Used after Verbs
195. That-clause Qualifying “So” and “Such”
196. Idiomatic Uses of “That”
197. Omission of “That”
198. “And” Expressing Result
199. “Or” Meaning Otherwise
200. Idiomatic Uses of “If”
201. “Than” with Ellipsis
202. “When” as Relative Conjunction
203. “As Well As”
204. “Though ... Yet ...”
205. Indirect Questions
206. Negative Inversion
CHAPTER VI WRITING WELL
207. What is Good Writing?
208. Superstitions
209. Diction and Sentence Structure
210. The Exact word
211. Specific and General Words
212. Plain and Pretentious Words
213. Idiomatic Phrases and Idiomatic Uses of Plain Words
214. “Fine Writing”
215. Hackneyed Phrases
216. Words Used Too Often
217. Economy of Words
218. Periodic and Loose Sentences
219. Qualities of a Good Sentence
220. Unity
221. Coherence
222. Emphasis
223. Euphony
CHAPTER VII PARAGRAPHS
224. What is a Paragraph?
225. Length of Paragraphs
226. Paragraphs and Outline
227. Topic Sentence
228. Paragraph Development
229. Qualities of a Good Paragraph
230. Transition between Paragraphs
Chapter VIII FORMS OF COMPOSITION
231. Narrations, Description, Exposition and Argument
232. Point of View in Narration
233. What Tense to Use?
234. “Story Style” and “News Style”
235. Plain Account of Events
236. Artistic, Practical, and Scientific Description
237. Avoid “Fine Writing”
238. What is Beautiful Language?
239. Examples of Artistic Description
240. Practical Description
241. Exposition is Explanation
242. Definition
243. What to Avoid in Exposition
244. Examples of Exposition
245. Argument and Exposition
246. Question and Answer
247. What to Avoid in Argument
248. Formal and Informal Argument
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First,don't look upon the study of grammar as all or nearly all that you have to do in learning to write correctly.Important as it is,grammar is not everything.
Secondly,don't indulge in much reasoning from the definitions；that would be sheer waste of time and energy.
Thirdly,don't be a slave to grammatical terms，about which uniformity does not prevail。
Fourthly，don't draw hasty conclusions from one or two examples.
Fifthly，don't cling to any narrowly grammatical point of vie at the expense of idiom.There are many idiomatic constructions that do not admit of grammatical analysis.
Sixthly,don't treat the study or grammar merely as something curious or fascinating,though you may delight in the philosophy or science of the language.
Seventhly,don't conte... (查看原文)
When you read a story in English，do you read it for the story or for the English ?This is a question that is not so foolish as it may seem.For I find that many students of English pay far more attention to the story than to the English.They read and enjoy and for a long time afterwards remember the story, but do not care to study the use of words and phrases in it. (查看原文)
市面上关于英文写作的书籍有不少，比如William Zinsser的On Writing Well以及E. B. White的The Elements of Style，但这类书籍针对的往往是以英语为母语的读者，有时候可能照顾不到外语学习者的需求。那么，有没有专门给英语学习者的入门书呢？《葛传槼英语写作》(The Writing ...
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First,don't look upon the study of grammar as all or nearly all that you have to do in learning to write correctly.Important as it is,grammar is not everything. Secondly,don't indulge in much reasoning from the definitions；that would be sheer waste of time and energy. Thirdly,don't be a slave to grammatical terms，about which uniformity does not prevail。 Fourthly，don't draw hasty conclusions...
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First,don't look upon the study of grammar as all or nearly all that you have to do in learning to write correctly.Important as it is,grammar is not everything.
Secondly,don't indulge in much reasoning from the definitions；that would be sheer waste of time and energy.
Thirdly,don't be a slave to grammatical terms，about which uniformity does not prevail。
Fourthly，don't draw hasty conclusions from one or two examples.
Fifthly，don't cling to any narrowly grammatical point of vie at the expense of idiom.There are many idiomatic constructions that do not admit of grammatical analysis.
Sixthly,don't treat the study or grammar merely as something curious or fascinating,though you may delight in the philosophy or science of the language.
Seventhly,don't content yourself with knowing the rules of grammar.To know a rule is one thing;to keep it is another.引自 【CHARPTER 5-WRITING CORRECTLY（CONTINUED)】
23. read any page in any book carefully. 24. what you read must be present-day English prose. 28. to write a passage from memory and correct your work in strict accordance with the passage. 30. reading dictionaries, reading the illustrative examples of the various uses of a great many common words. 41. keeping a diary will give you daily practice in expressing your own thoughts. 44. take a note...(6回应)
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23. read any page in any book carefully.
24. what you read must be present-day English prose.
28. to write a passage from memory and correct your work in strict accordance with the passage.
30. reading dictionaries, reading the illustrative examples of the various uses of a great many common words.
41. keeping a diary will give you daily practice in expressing your own thoughts.
44. take a note of each as ideas come into your mind.
45. making a outline. consider each notes to see whether it is closely connected with your subject. this depends partly upon how long your composition is to be. arrange the points in the proper order. do not begin the actual writing until you are satisfied with your outline. you need not follow your outline slavishly.
208. superstitions: 1) a sentence should not begin with "and" or "but". 2) a sentence should not begin with the same word as the previous sentence. 3) a sentence should not end in a preposition. 4) split infinitives should never be used.
211. it is a good exercise to find specific words for a general one.
212. use the plain word
214. (no) "fine writing"
215. (no) hackneyed phrases
216. (no) words used too often
217. economy of words
219. a good sentence: unity, coherence, emphasis, and euphony. unity demands that the sentence shall express one and only one complete thought. the principle of coherence requires that things that are to be thought of together shall be mentioned together.
229. a good paragraph: unity, coherence, and emphasis. unity, by sticking to the topic. coherence, by the use of connecting words and phrases and the avoidance of successive short sentences.
When you read a story in English, do you read it for the story or for the English? … For instance, they cherish the memory of how the mystery of the eternal triangle is solved, but do not remember a single sentence in the story.
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When you read a story in English, do you read it for the story or for the English? … For instance, they cherish the memory of how the mystery of the eternal triangle is solved, but do not remember a single sentence in the story.
練習題沒有答案，先貼出自己的，想看到更好的改寫 "Out in the Dark" It was a windy and snowy night. One could hardly see anything with snow falling down. One could see, however, vaguely, a doe walking with a fawn in the snow. The wind keeps blowing while the light of the stars dims and weakens. The darkness secretly haunts around the land. When a lamp dies out in one instant, shorter than the swif...
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練習題沒有答案，先貼出自己的，想看到更好的改寫
"Out in the Dark"
It was a windy and snowy night. One could hardly see anything with snow falling down. One could see, however, vaguely, a doe walking with a fawn in the snow. The wind keeps blowing while the light of the stars dims and weakens.
The darkness secretly haunts around the land. When a lamp dies out in one instant, shorter than the swiftest hound escaping, everything drowns in the dark.
Now in the darkness, I, the star, the wind, and the deer are the remaining moving thing. We are together, feel near to each other, yet we are far. Fear drums my ear, and drearies my heart in the company of ancient fright.
Before the mighty being comes, love and delight is the sight of all the universe. If you do not love the light of night as love and delight, the light of the world is weak and little.
Your chief reading matter must have been written far less than a hundred years ago, a few weeks ago if possible. must have been written in simple English, and must have been written by an Englishman or an American.
2016-07-15 09:50
Your chief reading matter must have been written far less than a hundred years ago, a few weeks ago if possible. must have been written in simple English, and must have been written by an Englishman or an American.
第七页，14. Spelling "I am fairly sure that you do not write "receive" for "receive", nor write "principle" for "principal" or the other way round, ..." 这儿的第一个receive是不是印错了啊？(2回应)
2013-08-11 13:15
第七页，14. Spelling
"I am fairly sure that you do not write "receive" for "receive", nor write "principle" for "principal" or the other way round, ..."
这儿的第一个receive是不是印错了啊？
看了剧透后购买了此书，恰好翻到此处，如此写作风格作者本人不知是出于唠叨的本性还是更多出于无奈。总之有一种说不出多诡异的‘幽默’气氛。。 When nothing is to be said, no composition is possible. You simply cannot learn composition if you always have nothing to say. Since you are bent upon learning it, you must find something to say. This finding is necessary to practice in composition. 没话可说就会...(1回应)
2014-11-28 02:22
看了剧透后购买了此书，恰好翻到此处，如此写作风格作者本人不知是出于唠叨的本性还是更多出于无奈。总之有一种说不出多诡异的‘幽默’气氛。。
When nothing is to be said, no composition is possible. You simply cannot learn composition if you always have nothing to say. Since you are bent upon learning it, you must find something to say. This finding is necessary to practice in composition.
没话可说就会没东西可写。
如果你就是没话可说那写作就无从学起。
既然你下定决心学习写作，那就要没话找话。
因为只有找到可说的话题 才能开始学习写作。
给我感觉作者好像是经年累月被各式各样的奇葩学生虐待到了这个境界——即使你是猪脑我都能让你听懂的地步。
When you read a story in English, do you read it for the story or for the English? … For instance, they cherish the memory of how the mystery of the eternal triangle is solved, but do not remember a single sentence in the story.
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When you read a story in English, do you read it for the story or for the English? … For instance, they cherish the memory of how the mystery of the eternal triangle is solved, but do not remember a single sentence in the story.
1. Corn英：cereal 谷类 美：玉米 2. Dormitory 英：hall of residence美： 3. Elevator 英：lift美：elevator 4. Event 英：if the weather is fine美：in the event that that the weather is fine 5. Expressway 英：motorway美：expressway 6. Get 英：过去分词got美：常为gotten 补充gotta：have to/must 7. Do have 英：he hasn’t any friends/has he any friends美：does he have any friends/he doesn’t have any fri...
2020-02-21 19:20
1. Corn英：cereal 谷类 美：玉米
2. Dormitory 英：hall of residence美：
3. Elevator 英：lift美：elevator
4. Event 英：if the weather is fine美：in the event that that the weather is fine
5. Expressway 英：motorway美：expressway
6. Get 英：过去分词got美：常为gotten 补充gotta：have to/must
7. Do have 英：he hasn’t any friends/has he any friends美：does he have any friends/he doesn’t have any friends
8. On 英：can you call on Monday美：can you call Monday?
There appear to be many Chinese students who have read a number of books on grammar and composition and done many exercises in correcting and improving sentences and yet cannot write even tolerable English. 'TOLERABLE'.
2019-09-11 15:16
There appear to be many Chinese students who have read a number of books on grammar and composition and done many exercises in correcting and improving sentences and yet cannot write even tolerable English. 引自第14页
魏剑峰
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When you read a story in English, do you read it for the story or for the English? … For instance, they cherish the memory of how the mystery of the eternal triangle is solved, but do not remember a single sentence in the story.
1 有用 MargaretInwood 2018-04-27
好像一本家庭教师的私人讲义，编排有些……怎么说……朴实
12 有用 ... 2018-10-07
我跟同学说，我最近在读葛传槼英语写作，对方回答，一听就不行，中国人写的。
3 有用 狻猊 2013-08-09
没有传说中高大上的感觉。有大半都是讲词的用法，剩下的tips也没什么新鲜。
0 有用 小白兔白也青 2018-01-12
没读完，工具书，可以反复读。读过的部分觉得不错。
0 有用 RSS 2014-10-15
3+1
0 有用 努力会有小幸运 2021-01-25
简单看看
0 有用 SealTheDepress 2021-01-18
需要反复研读（x
0 有用 青沂沂沂沂 2020-12-01
老先生在理
0 有用 XuJinxing 2020-11-18
没一个能“打”的
0 有用 #瞬间收藏家# 2020-11-16
"the art of writing English" 2016-01-13想读|一定程度上可以说是反传统的一本书。但对我这种不走寻常路的读者来说，可读性比漫天刷浆糊的《英语写作手册》不知道高到哪里去了。2019-09-10在读