دانلود کتاب One Day in the Life of the English Language: A Microcosmic Usage Handbook

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Title\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nPreface\nNavigation Tips\nIntroduction\n The Starting Idea: You and Your Audience\n Preview of the Following Pages\n December 29, 2008, as History\n Two Disclaimers\n On Using Sentences from the Real World\n Formal Usage—Its Rules and Value\n “If you don’t have grammar, you don’t have sense”\n1 Actants, Actions, Ongoing States: Nouns, Verbs, and the Sentences They Form\n Why Learn the Parts of Speech?\n Fundamentals\n Fine Tuning\n Deep Focus\n2 Words That Modify and Orient: Adjectives, Adverbs,Conjunctions, Prepositions, Articles, Interjections\n The Power of Small Words Well Deployed\n Adjectives\n Adverbs\n Conjunctions\n Prepositions\n Articles\n Interjections\n3 Who Is He/She? Pronouns\n A Whole Chapter on Pronouns?\n Fundamentals\n Fine Tuning\n Deep Focus\n4 Punctuation, Part I—The Comma: Promiscuous Uses\n Introduction: Punctuation Substitutes for Oral Emphases, Facial Expressions, and Body Language\n Fundamentals\n Fine Tuning\n Deep Focus\n5 Punctuation, Part II—The Colon, Semicolon, and More Mysteries of Punctuation\n The Colon and Semicolon\n The Apostrophe\n The Dash\n The Quotation Mark\n End Punctuation and Combining Sentences\n6 Diction: Sentences as Clockwork\n On the Interconnectedness of Words\n Fundamentals\n A Microconclusion\nAppendix I: Fifteen Myths of Digital-Age English\nAppendix II: Using This Book to Teach College Writing: A Microguide\nFifty Key Terms: A Microglossary\nWorks Cited\n General Sources\n December 29, 2008, Examples\nIndex