Writing and Thinking: A Handbook of Composition and RevisionHoughton Mifflin, 1931 - 449 頁 Tables on lining-papers."Second revised edition."First edition, 1919, published under title: Sentences and thinking. |
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... better . Had better is the established and preferred idiom . Would have . Misused for had in conditional clauses : " If he had come , we could now settle the question . " ( Not " If he would have come ... " ) Would of . Vulgarism for ...
... better . Had better is the established and preferred idiom . Would have . Misused for had in conditional clauses : " If he had come , we could now settle the question . " ( Not " If he would have come ... " ) Would of . Vulgarism for ...
第 380 頁
... better start home now , for we have got to get in So we got our string of We got to camp about wood before we can ... Better : Awkward : Better : I was thanked by both of them with a smile . All spent a most delightful day . Both thanked ...
... better start home now , for we have got to get in So we got our string of We got to camp about wood before we can ... Better : Awkward : Better : I was thanked by both of them with a smile . All spent a most delightful day . Both thanked ...
第 385 頁
... better days , crept up to the door . Right : The car , which was long , low and rakish , but which had evi- dently seen better days , crept up to the door . Exercise . First study Parallelism , 86 , and Faulty Coördina- tion , 68 , and ...
... better days , crept up to the door . Right : The car , which was long , low and rakish , but which had evi- dently seen better days , crept up to the door . Exercise . First study Parallelism , 86 , and Faulty Coördina- tion , 68 , and ...
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