Today I transcribed the content of The element of style to my notebook. Now I retype below:
Contents
I Introduction
II Elementary rules of usage
- Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's
- In a series of three or more items with a single conjunction, use a comma after each item except the last
- Enclose parenthetic expressions between comma
- Place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause
- Do not join independent clauses with comma
- Do not break sentences in two
- A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject
- Divide words at the line-ends, in accordance with their formation and pronunciation
III Elementary principles of composition
- Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic
- As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning
- Use active voice
- Put statements in positive form
- Omit needless words
- Avoid a succession of loose sentences
- Express co-ordinate ideas in similar form
- Keep related words together
- In summaries, keep one tense
- Place the emphatic words of a sentence at the end
IV A few matters of form
V Words and expressions commonly misused
VI Words often misspelled
All above are the content I read today.
What will I do next?
- go on my reading
- transcribe what I read as before
- try to translate into Chinese
