Elements of Style – Audiobook with AudioPrint

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Elements of Style – Audiobook with AudioPrint
By Professor William Strunk

What you need to know about grammar and writing as taught widely in colleges, high schools, and grammar schools wherever American English is spoken!

William Strunk, Professor at Cornell, wrote his famous “Little Book” on good grammar and writing to simplify the subject for students far and wide. His famous motto was, “Omit needless words.” This unabridged version follows this motto and can be listened to in just 60 minutes! Minor edits have been made to conform to modern usage such as using gender neutral words as opposed to just “he” or “him,” adapting to modern spelling usage, and similar small things which might be a distraction for a modern listener.

25 subjects cover the elementary rules of usage: form the possessive singular of nouns with ‘s, three or more terms with a single conjunction, enclose parenthetic expressions between commas, place a comma before but and and, do not join independent clauses by a comma, do not break sentences in two, a participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence, elementary principles of composition, make the paragraph the unit of composition, begin a paragraph with a topic sentence, use the active voice, put statements in positive form, omit needless words, avoid a succession of loose sentences, express co-ordinate ideas in similar form, keep related words together, in summaries keep to one tense, place the emphatic word of a sentence at the end, a few matters of form, words and expressions commonly misused, and 56 words commonly misspelled.

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Preface: Light Editing to Modernize.
I. Introduction
II. Elementary Rules of Usage
1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with s’s.
2. In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term.
3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas.
4. Place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause.
5. Do not join independent clauses by a comma.
6. Do not break sentences in two.
7. A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject.
8. Divide words at line-ends, in accordance with their formation and pronunciation.
III. Elementary Principles of Composition.
9. Make the paragraph the unit of composition; one paragraph to a subject.
10. As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.
11. Use the active voice.
12. Put statements in positive form.
13. Omit needless words.
14. Avoid a succession of loose sentences.
15. Express co-ordinate ideas in similar form.
16. Keep related words together.
17. In summaries, keep to one tense.
18. Place the emphatic word of a sentence at the end.
IV. A Few Matters of Form
V. Words and Expressions Commonly misused.
VI. 56 Words Commonly Misspelled.