Part 15 (1/2)

80 What is the writer's task?

81 What three abuses are to be avoided?

82 What are Campbell's five canons?

83 What are the rules for the formation of sentences?

84 What are the rules for the forraphs?

GLOSSARY

AMBIGUITY--The possibility ofof a noun or pronoun is made clear or emphatic by the use of another noun or pronoun the two are said to be in apposition, e g, John, the old pressman

AUXILIARY VERB--A verb used to help to express theits voice,of a subject and predicate with theira part of a sentence: a sentence within a sentence

COLLECTIVE NOUN--A noun indicating a collection of units considered as a whole, e g, _crowd_

COMPOUND WORDS--Words ether to express one idea

CONTEXT--The entire writing froe is taken

CORRELATIVE--A term applied to pairs of conjunctions or other words or phrases which imply or involve each other

DICTION--The choice and use of words

GRAMMAR--The science that treats of the principles that govern the correct use of language in either spoken or written form; the science of the sentence and its ele unrelated ideas or dealing with a variety of separate things

HYPOTHESIS--A supposition, or i

HYPOTHETICAL CLAUSE--A clause containing a supposition

METAPHOR--A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another by speaking of it as if it were that other, or calling it that other

NOUN CLAUSE--A clause used as a noun

OBJECT (OF A VERB)--The thing acted on

PARTICIPIAL CONSTRUCTION--A participle and its modifiers used as the subject or object of a verb

PHRASE--An expression, consisting usually of but a feords, denoting a single idea, or for a separate part of a sentence