Title: Theory / Unimportant / Art / Writting / The elements of Style Strunk and White

Question: if you don't know how to pronounce a word w,
Answer: say w loud
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Construction: if the listener will understand it erroneously, at least let it be clear so that it can be corrected by them

Question: When to put/omit 's as posessive
Answer: always use it, except for ancient proper names ending in -es and -es
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Question: In conjunctions of three or more terms, what is the rule
Answer: put a comma after each element except the last one
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Name: serial comma
Definition: the comma put after an item in a conjunction of at least 3 elements
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Name: parenthetic expression
Definition: an expression that interupts the flow of a sentence
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Example: clarifying something, such as in:
Marjories husband, Colonel Nelson paid us a visit yesterday.
Example2: interjection:
Well, Susan, this is a fine mess you are in.
Example3: abbreviations etc., i.e., e.g.,
Counterexample: Restrictive clause
Example4: honorific title
Horace Fulsome, Ph.D., presided.

Question: How to indicate parenthetic expression
Answer: either put comma on both side of it or on neither
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Name: A restrictive clause
Definition: A clause that serves to identify more precisely what is mentionned
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Example: "Jr" in James Wright Jr.
Example2: People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones:
"who live in glass house" is restrictive

Question: how to determine if a clause is restrictive?
Answer: if the clause can be put as its own sentence, it is nonrestrictive
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Question: In a two-part sentence, how to introduce the second part, when the second member is introduced by as (in the sence of because)
Answer: with a comma
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Question: In a two-part sentence, how to introduce the second part, when the second member is introduced by for
Answer: with a comma
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Question: In a two-part sentence, how to introduce the second part, when the second member is introduced by or
Answer: with a comma
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Question: In a two-part sentence, how to introduce the second part, when the second member is introduced by nor
Answer: with a comma
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Question: In a two-part sentence, how to introduce the second part, when the second member is introduced by while (in the sense of "and at the same time")
Answer: with a comma
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Question: In a two-part sentence, how to introduce the second part, when the second member is introduced by but
Answer: with a comma
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Question: In a two-part sentence, how to introduce the second part, when the second member is introduced by and
Answer: without a comma
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Question: In a two-part sentence, how to introduce the second part, when the second member is not joined by a conjuction but is a full sentence of its own
Answer: with a semicolon (or just make two sentences)
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Question: In a two-part sentence, how to introduce the second part, when the second member is joined by an adverb
Answer: with a semicolon
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Question: When is it okay to cut a sentence in two, making what is logically the end of the sentence a sentence of its own?
Answer: When the second sentence is short, and the author want to emphasize it
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Example: Again and again he called out. No reply.

Question: For independant clause, what can be introduced with a colon
Answer: a list of particulars
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Answer2: an appositive
Answer3: an amplification
Answer4: an illustrative quotation

Question: Which punctation to use to introduce a list of particulars?
Answer: a column
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Question: Which punctation to use to introduce an appositive?
Answer: a column
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Question: Which punctation to use to introduce an amplification?
Answer: a column
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Question: Which punctation to use to introduce an illustrative quotation?
Answer: a column
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Question: What can be the use of column
Answer: Separate some independant clause
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Answer2: follow the salutation of a formal letter
Answer3: separate hour from minute
Answer4: separate the title of a work from its subtitle
Answer5: separate a chapter from a verse

Question: What punctuation to use after a salutation in a formal letter
Answer: Column
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Question: What punctuation to use to separate title from subtitle
Answer: Column
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Question: What punctuation to use to separate hour from minute
Answer: Column
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Question: What punctuation to use to separate chapter number from verse number
Answer: Column
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Question: How does dash compare to comma
Answer: it is stronger
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Question: How does dash compare to colon
Answer: less formal
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Question: How does dash compare to parentheses
Answer: dash is more relaxed
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Question: When to use dashes
Answer: only if other punctuations seems inadequate
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Question: Singular or plural after each
Answer: singular
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Question: Singular or plural after either
Answer: singular
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Question: Singular or plural after everyone
Answer: singular
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Question: Singular or plural after everybody
Answer: singular
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Question: Singular or plural after neither
Answer: singular
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Question: Singular or plural after nobody
Answer: singular
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Question: Singular or plural after someone
Answer: singular
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Question: Singular or plural after none
Answer: singular if it mean no one or not one, otherwise plural
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Question: How does "and" in a subject affect singular/plural
Answer: it forces the verb to be plural, unless "and" is part of a classical expression such as "bread and butter"
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Question: How does "with" in a subject affect singular/plural
Answer: the part after "with" is not considered to choose singular/plural, only the part before it
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Question: How does "as well as" in a subject affect singular/plural
Answer: the part after "as well as" is not considered to choose singular/plural, only the part before it
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Question: How does "in addition to" in a subject affect singular/plural
Answer: the part after "in addition to" is not considered to choose singular/plural, only the part before it
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Question: How does "except" in a subject affect singular/plural
Answer: the part after "except" is not considered to choose singular/plural, only the part before it
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Question: How does "together with" in a subject affect singular/plural
Answer: the part after "together with" is not considered to choose singular/plural, only the part before it
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Question: How does "no less than" in a subject affect singular/plural
Answer: the part after "no less than" is not considered to choose singular/plural, only the part before it
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Name: An understood verb
Definition: A verb that is implicit in a sentence as it is a repetition of a verb already used
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Example: "I think Horace admires Jessica more than I", means "more than I do"

Question: A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to
Answer: the grammatical subject
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Example: "Walking slowly down the road, he saw a woman accompanied by two children", "he" walks slowly, not the woman

Question: When can a single sentence be a paragraph of its own
Answer: for transitition, to explain how previous and next paragraph relate
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Section: 13
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Answer2: in speech

Question: How to start a paragraph
Answer: Either explain the topic of the paragraph or
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Answer2: with a sentence that helps the transition

Question: In animated narrative, what is the point of paragraph
Answer: rhetorical pause, throwing into prominence some detail of the action
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Question: If you use a negative in a sentence, you should
Answer: usually replace it with a positive form
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Question: If you use a conditional in a sentence, you should
Answer: usually replace it with a more authoritative form.
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Example: Applicants can make a good impression by being neat and punctual. ->
Applicants will make a good impression by being neat and punctual.

Question: When does it makes sens to use passive voice
Answer: When the subject of the text is not the person doing the action.
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Context: style
Example: «The dramatists of the Restoration are little esteemed today.» in a text about the dramatist