具体描述
本书是葛传椝先生为我国读者撰写的英语写作专著,可作高校教材,亦可作自学课本。除对写作基本知识、写作技巧和文体修辞分章介绍之外,还特别对惯用法、习语和遣词造句等有关问题进行了详实阐述。同时配以大量取自现代英美书刊原著中的实例,以及各种切合实际的练习题。本书用简明地道的英文写成,是英语写作教材之经典。
作者简介
葛传椝(1906—1992),我国英语学界泰斗,著有《英汉四用词典》、《新英汉词典》(主要编纂者之一)及《英语惯用法词典》等,影响深远,恩泽几代学人。
目录信息
1. Composition and Compositions
2. Purpose of This Book
3. Your Advantage
4. Your Special Difficulties
5. Rhetoric
CHAPTER II MECHANICS OF COMPOSITION
6. Materials
7. One Side or Two Sides?
8. Margins
9. Spacing
10. Titles
11. Paging
12. Folding
13. Endorsing
14. Spelling
15. Syllabication
16. Underlining
17. Italics
18. Omissions, Corrections, and Insertions
19. A Warning
CHAPTER III LEARNING TO WRITE
20. Something to Say
21. How to Say It
22. A Consolation
23. Others May Have Said It before You
24. What to Read
25. How to Read
26. Some Dictionaries Recommended
27. Self-cultivation
28. Writing from Memory
29. Imitation, Conscious and Unconscious
30. Reading Dictionaries
31. Expressing Another Person’s Thoughts
32. Paraphrasing Sentences
33. Suggestions for Paraphrasing
34. Paraphrasing Paragraphs
35. Paraphrasing Verse
36. Condensing
37. Various Degrees of Condensation
38. Suggestions for Condensing
39. Using Materia1 in Han
40. Expressing Your Own Thoughts
41. Keeping a Diary
42. Choosing a Subject
43. Choosing a Title
44. Taking Notes
45. Making an Outline
46. Note-taking and Outline-making in the Head
47. Making Outlines of What You Read
48. Expanding an Outline
49. Practice in Composition
CHAPTER IV WRITING CORRECTLY
50. What is Correct English?
51. Usage
52. Present-day Usage
53. Neologisms
54. English and American Usage
55. Good Usage
56. Expressions Outside of Good Usage
57. Colloquialisms Etc in Written English
58. You are Quite Safe
59. How You Violate Usage
CHAPTER V WRITING CORRECTLY (Continued)
60. Grammar
61. Idiom
62. Grammar and Idiom
63. About the Study of Grammar
64. About the Study of Idiom
65. Some Books Recommended
66. Make Your Own Dictionary of Usage
67. Exercises in Grammar
68. Proper Nouns Used as Common Nouns
69. Nouns Used as Adjectives
70. Singulars and Plurals
71. Nouns Singular Only
72. Nouns Plural Usually or Plural Only
73. Nouns Plural in a Special Usage
74. Nouns of Multitude
75. Abstract Nouns in Plural
76. Material Nouns in Plural
77. Nouns Ending in “-ics”
78. Some Miscellaneous Nouns
79. Numerals in Plural
80. Number in Nouns Used as Adjectives
81. Number and Articles
82. Plural Subject with Singular Verb
83. Some Knotty Points of Number
84. Gender and Sex
85. Male or Female Beings Considered Neuter
86. Animals Considered Masculine or Feminine Without Reference to Sex
87. Sexless Things Considered Masculine or Feminine
88. Masculine and Feminine Nouns Used as Nouns of Common Gender
89. Feminine Nouns Ending in “-ess”
90. Nouns Ending in “-man”
91. Words of Common Gender Made Masculine or Feminine
92. Gender and Number
93. Possessive Case and Of-phrase
94. Subjective and Objective Meanings
95. Possessive Plurals
96. Noun Phrases and Possessive Case
97. “’S” Repeated and “Of” Repeated
98. Possessive Case and Lifeless Things
99. Idiomatic Uses of Possessive Case
100. Noun Omitted after Possessive
101. “Of” before Possessive
102. One Noun in Two Cases
103. Pronoun and its Antecedent
104. Lack of a Common-gender Third-person-singular Pronoun
105. A Question of Person
106. Case in Pronouns
107. Objective Used as Predicate Nominative
108. Interrogative “Who” Used as Objective
109. Relative “Whom” Used as Nominative
110. “Whom” Used after “Than”
111. Nominative or Objective after “But”?
112. A Curious Case of Agreement
113. National, Editorial, and Generic Uses of “We”
114. Generic Use of “You” and “Your”
115. Indefinite Use of “They”
116. Generic Use of “One” and “One’s”
117. Idiomatic Uses of “It”
118. Two Distinct Constructions of “It ... That”
119. Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses
120. The Relative Pronouns “Who”, “Which”, and “That”
121. Three Points of Choice between “Who(m)” and “Which”
122. Two Relative Clauses Linked by “And” or “But”
123. Omission of Relative Pronouns
124. “Which” without Definite Antecedent
125. “As” as Relative Pronoun
126. “Who” as Indefinite Relative Pronoun
127. “What” Preceding Statement
128. “One Another” and “Each Other”
129. Adjectives Used as Nouns
130. Exact Senses of Adjectives
131. A Curious Point about Comparatives
132. Two Curious Uses of Superlatives
133. “A Most” Followed by Adjective
134. “Worth” Taking an Object
135. “The Matter”
136. “Nothing Much”
137. Articles
138. “A” and Abstract Nouns
139. Some Words Often Mistaken for Abstract Nouns
140. Generic Use of Articles
141. Position of “A” (or “An”)
142. “The” Giving Common Noun Abstract Sense
143. Articles and Proper Nouns
144. Omission of Articles
145. Repetition of Articles
143. Final Remarks on Articles
147. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
148. Absolute Use of Transitive Verbs
149. Copulative Verbs
150. Factitive Verbs
151. Verbs Taking Double Object
152. Tense and Time
153. Present Tense Referring to Future
154. Present Tense Referring to Past
155. Past Tense Referring to Future
156. Present Perfect Tense vs Past Tense
157. Past Perfect Tense
158. Perfect Tense vs Factitive “Have” with Past Participle as Complement
159. Continuous Tenses
160. “Always” with Continuous Tenses
161. “Be” in Continuous Tenses
162. “Used” Followed by Infinitive
163. “Be” Followed by Infinitive
164. “Have” Followed by Infinitive
165. Infinitive without “to”
166. Split Infinitives
167. “To” Standing for Infinitive
168. “To” Followed by Gerund
169. Infinitive or Gerund?
170. “Enough” Qualified by Infinitive
171. “Too” Qualified by Infinitive
172. Active and Passive Infinitives
173. Active and Passive Gerunds
174. Gerunds Used as Adjectives
175. Gerund and Possessive
176. Fused Participles
177. Present Participle Separated from Subject by Predicate Verb
178. Unattached Participles
179. Intransitive Past Participles Used as Adjectives
180. “Shall” and “Will”, “Should” and “Would”
181. Subjunctive Mood
182. Sequence of Tenses
183. “The” as Adverb
184. Double Adverbial “The”
185. Quasi-adverbs
186. Prepositions
187. Idiomatic Uses of Prepositions
188. Prepositions before Particular Nouns
189. Prepositions after Particular Words
190. Omission of Prepositions
191. Prepositions Governing Words Other than Nouns and Pronouns
192. That-clause in Apposition to Nouns
193. That-clause Qualifying Adjectives and Past Participles
194. That-clause Used after Verbs
195. That-clause Qualifying “So” and “Such”
196. Idiomatic Uses of “That”
197. Omission of “That”
198. “And” Expressing Result
199. “Or” Meaning Otherwise
200. Idiomatic Uses of “If”
201. “Than” with Ellipsis
202. “When” as Relative Conjunction
203. “As Well As”
204. “Though ... Yet ...”
205. Indirect Questions
206. Negative Inversion
CHAPTER VI WRITING WELL
207. What is Good Writing?
208. Superstitions
209. Diction and Sentence Structure
210. The Exact word
211. Specific and General Words
212. Plain and Pretentious Words
213. Idiomatic Phrases and Idiomatic Uses of Plain Words
214. “Fine Writing”
215. Hackneyed Phrases
216. Words Used Too Often
217. Economy of Words
218. Periodic and Loose Sentences
219. Qualities of a Good Sentence
220. Unity
221. Coherence
222. Emphasis
223. Euphony
CHAPTER VII PARAGRAPHS
224. What is a Paragraph?
225. Length of Paragraphs
226. Paragraphs and Outline
227. Topic Sentence
228. Paragraph Development
229. Qualities of a Good Paragraph
230. Transition between Paragraphs
Chapter VIII FORMS OF COMPOSITION
231. Narrations, Description, Exposition and Argument
232. Point of View in Narration
233. What Tense to Use?
234. “Story Style” and “News Style”
235. Plain Account of Events
236. Artistic, Practical, and Scientific Description
237. Avoid “Fine Writing”
238. What is Beautiful Language?
239. Examples of Artistic Description
240. Practical Description
241. Exposition is Explanation
242. Definition
243. What to Avoid in Exposition
244. Examples of Exposition
245. Argument and Exposition
246. Question and Answer
247. What to Avoid in Argument
248. Formal and Informal Argument
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