CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

FORMS OF THE SENTENCE.

1. Definition, pp. 1-2.- 2. Forms in General, 3.

UNCONDITIONED STATEMENT.- 3. Fundamental Structure; Varieties,

3-6.- 4. Specimens, 7-9.

CONDITIONED STATEMENT.- 5. Definition; Fundamental Structure,

9-10.- 6. Specimens, 10-16.

BALANCED STATEMENT.- 7; 16-18.

28. General Remarks.-18-20.

CHAPTER II.

GENERAL PROPERTIES OF THE SENTENCE.

29. Introductory Remarks.—pp. 21–22.

UNITY. 10. In General, 22.

Unity in the Unconditioned Statement.- 11. Specimens, 23.- 12. Vio-

lation of Unity; General Faults, 24-28.—8 13. Violation of Unity;

Relative Pronoun, Adverb, etc.,
28-31.

Unity in the Conditioned Statement.- 14. General Remarks, 31-32.

- 15. Dangling Participle, 33-34.-8 16. Failure to Perceive Con-

dition, 34-36.- 17. Condition Wrongly Denoted, 36–39.

Unity in the Balanced Statement.- 18. Improper Change of Structure,

40.

CLEARNESS. 19. General Remarks, 41-43. — 20. Pronouns, etc.,

43-46.-21. Modifiers, 46-50.- 22. Modifiers at Beginning of

Sentence, 50-52.- 23. Omission of Essential Words, 52-54.—

24. Obscurity and Ambiguity, 54-58.- 25. Wrong Use of Cer-

tain Words: because, only, etc., not, for, with, while, 58–65.

FORCE.-26. Conciseness, 65-69.—Arrangement of the Sentence.-

27. Principal Places, 69-71.- 28. Parenthetic Expressions, 71–

72.-29. Climactic Order, 72-74.- 30. Stability of Structure;

Active Voice, 75-77.-8 31. Conditioned Statement, 77-79.- 32.

Periodic Sentence, 79-81.

EASE. 33. General Remarks, 81.—8 34. Awkwardness in Sound, 81-

83.- 35. Awkwardness in Sense, 83-88.

CHAPTER III.

GENERAL AND CHRONIC BLUNDERS.

§ 36. AND, pp. 89-92.- 37. So; And so, 93.- 38. As; As To; As
REGARDS, 93-95.-8 39. BUT, 95-96.—2 40. HISTORICAL PRESENT,
97-98.

CHAPTER IV.

PARAGRAPHING.

41. Kinds of Paragraph, pp. 99-100.— 42. Independent Paragraph,

100-103.

GENERAL FEATURES.-2 43. Preliminary Discussion, 103.—8 44. Unity,

103-107.-8 45. Sequence, 107-112.- 46. Topic Sentence, 112-

115. 47. Principal Places in Paragraph, 115-117.- 48. Sen-

tence-echo, 117-122.- 49. Paragraph-echo, 122-123.-2 50. Re-

peated Structure, 123-126.—§ 51. Sentence-connectives, 126–128. —

52. Sentence-length, 128-133.-8 53. Paragraph-length, 133-135.

- 54. Link-paragraph, 135-139.

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CHAPTER V.

COMPOSITION-WRITING.

855. General Explanation, p. 140.

I. PREPARING THE SUBJECT.- 56. Defining or Restricting Subject,

141.- 57. Collecting Items, 141-144.- 58. Grouping Items, 144-

146.

2. FORMULATING THE SUBJECT.- 59. Working Plan or Outline, 147–

153.

3. WRITING THE COMPOSITION.- 60. First Draught, 154.-8 61. Re-

vision, 154-156.— 62. Introduction and Conclusion, 156-160 —

63. Link-paragraph, 160.- 64. Title, 160–162.

PROVISIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

The present edition is for immediate use in Cornell
University. When complete, the work will include a
Chapter VI., Forms of Prose Writing; also a Preface
and an Index.