ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO WRITING PART 27

An intrusive sentence absolute is a completely independent second sentence which is stuck into the middle of a containing statement without being syntactically tied to it in any way. Such a construction must be clearly marked, but it cannot be set off by commas, semicolons, or colons, since t[r]

multaneously both true and not true, thus violating what lo- gicians call the law of noncontradiction. A classic example is:
"All Cretans are liars," said a Cretan.
A rhetorical paradox, on the other hand, does not contain a true contradiction. It may seem to. Chesterton appears <[r]

AWKWARD SOUND We choose words primarily for what they mean, but we must remember that words are also units of sound and rhythm.. Even people adept at silent reading will be put off by aw[r]

TRANG 5 DICTION SPECIFICITY MEANS CONCISION Beginning with a word too general for your idea creates a need for wordy modification: _People who enter college for the first time find it di[r]

TRANG 4 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE When it comes to guilt, a respected in some told us, as her considered verdict on the Nazi program, that evil is word that means something so ordinary that yo[r]

But Toronto—Toronto is the subject. One must say something— what must one say about Toronto? What can one? What has any- body ever said? It is impossible to give it anything but commen- dation. It is not squalid like Birmingham, or cramped like Canton, or scattered like Edmonton, or sham like[r]

former, but rather around the perBeces that set
them at war:
The Catholic believed in the authority ofthe Church; the Heformer, in the authority of reason. Where the Church had spoken, the Cath- olic obeyed. His duty was to accept without question t[r]

By the door, inside, was fastened a small old-fashioned looking- glass frame, with-two little fragments of the original mirror lodged down in one corner of it. This arrangement afforded a pleasant double-barreled portrait of you when you looked into it, with one half of your head set up a couple of[r]

ing much below the linea lateralis, as are the back and tail fins: a
black line runs from each eye down to the nose; its belly is of a silvery white; the upper jaw projects beyond the lower, and is sur- rounded with six feelers, three on each side; its pectoral fins are large, its ventral m[r]

I have some friends in their late twenties. They live in Chicago, where he is starting out as a lawyer and she as an accountant. Both are presently junior members of large firms, but they are ambitious and hope eventually either to track upward in their companies or to get out on their[r]

The SAPS score is a derivation of the APACHE score and is assigned 24 h after admission. It uses a mathematical formula to give a numerical value of the predicted hospital mortality rate.
The POSSUM scoring system is used by many surgeons in the UK [4,5]. It is more detailed than the ASA cl[r]

Corporations that contribute to society benefit on the inside as well. Employees involved in volunteerism programs are more motivated to perform in their business environment because their commitment to others improves morale and fulfills an important as moral is increased and p[r]

After reading this eBook, you should have a better understanding of how to read email messages that have been written by someone who writes in English as a 2 nd language.
You should also be able to respond to an email message or write a new email message using correct struc[r]

Communication around this area can be difficult. The UK guidelines set out a legal and ethical framework for CPR decisions. The British Medical Association Ethics Department has also produced a patient leaflet on CPR [23].
Various investigators have attempted to predict outcome following ca[r]

5 As you may have guessed, this is an impossible blood gas – the answer is laboratory error!
6 There is an acidaemia (low pH) due to a very low st bicarbonate (metabolic acidosis). The PaCO 2 is appropriately low, although it should be lower than this – approximately 2.5 kPa, possibly indic[r]

TRANG 6 CHAPTER 3 GRAMMAR, USAGE, AND MECHANICS Purpose, strategy, and style are decided by you.. But the de-cision must be made within limits set by rules over which you have little con[r]

But if your subject is more feelings about war, TRANG 2 THE WRITING PROCESS scribble, to get ideas on paper, any ideas, however far-fetched, _in whatever order._ FINDING TOPICS BY ASKING[r]

TRANG 8 BEGINNING for instance, ought not to begin "The purpose of this paper is to contrast college and high school." It is smoother to es-tablish the subject by implication: "College a[r]

TRANG 5 Guide Ss use phrases: _played badminton _ _drew a picture _ _sang songs _ To take part in part 1 to practice Activity 410’ 3.Listen and check - Guide Ss to listen and check - Cal[r]

Throughout the years the same political pattern prevailed. The city dominated the state: New Orleans, the nation's mecca of the flesh- pots, smiling in not altogether Latin indifference at its moral defor- mities, and, like a cankered prostitute, covering those deformities with paint and lace and ca[r]