By Nancy Lobb
The thrill approach to increase writing skills!
Middle university scholars will get pleasure from this attractive creation to proofreading. every one lesson is a brief, funny anecdote or letter, or crossword puzzle riddled with blunders. It s as much as your scholars to spot and notate the errors. specializes in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, sentence constitution, and magnificence.
37 fun-filled classes
Extensive instructor help comprises grammatical principles, solution keys, extra actions, and exams for simple review
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Prose writers can learn as much from poetry, however, and if we can appreciate why lines such as the following work as poetry, we shall gain a greater understanding of the rhythmic and acoustic possibilities of language: “I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god . ” (T. S. Eliot, “The Dry Salvages,” in Four Quartets [1941]). “Complacencies of the peignoir and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug . ” (Wallace Stevens, “Sunday Morning,” in Harmonium [1923]).
21 22 THE FACTS ON FILE GUIDE TO STYLE When we are discussing correctness, of the grammatical or any other kind, we can usually do so in full confidence that we can say something is either correct or incorrect, and there is no argument. There are objective, or at least solid, grounds for making the judgment. If you add 12 and 15 and come to a total of 28, you can easily be proved wrong. If necessary someone can produce 12 objects, and then another 15, and ask you to count the total. If you say or write I are teaching English since twelve years, someone can easily produce a grammar book and open it to the chapter on subject-verb agreement and open it again to the chapter on prepositions and point out to you that this is not correct.
The fourth is an awareness of this other dimension that words possess, their implicit emotional charge. ” When we say that a particular word has connotations of this or that, we mean that it is generally associated with this or that emotion, mood, or phenomenon and that its meaning is colored by that association. The word angelic, for example, has entirely positive connotations: It has an aura of benignity, sweetness, and beauty, the qualities we traditionally associate with angels. The word expedient, on the other hand, has generally rather negative connotations; it suggests, without quite making it explicit, that a person is acting out of self-interest.