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THE
ELEMENTS OF STYLE
BY
WILLIAM STRUNK, Jr.
PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
IN
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1918, 1919, BY
WILLIAM STRUNK, JR.
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE, INC.
THE MAPLE PRESS YORK PA
CONTENTS
| Page | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| I. | Introductory | 5 | |
| II. | Elementary Rules of Usage | 7 | |
| 1. | Form the possessive singular of nouns by adding 's | 7 | |
| 2. | In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last | 7 | |
| 3. | Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas | 8 | |
| 4. | Place a comma before a conjunction introducing a co-ordinate clause | 10 | |
| 5. | Do not join independent clauses by a comma | 11 | |
| 6. | Do not break sentences in two | 12 | |
| 7. | A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject | 13 | |
| III. | Elementary Principles of Composition | 15 | |
| 8. | Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic | 15 | |
| 9. | As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning | 17 | |
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