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HOW TO

SPEAK AND WRITE

CORRECTLY

BY

JOSEPH DEVLIN, M.A.

Edited by

THEODORE WATERS

THE CHRISTIAN HERALD

BIBLE HOUSE

NEW YORK

Copyright, 1910, by

THE CHRISTIAN HERALD

NEW YORK

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I

                REQUIREMENTS OF SPEECH

                THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN A NUTSHELL

                DEFINITIONS

                THREE ESSENTIALS

CHAPTER II

                ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR

                DIVISIONS OF GRAMMAR

                LETTERS

                SYLLABLES AND WORDS

                THE PARTS OF SPEECH - ARTICLE

                THE PARTS OF SPEECH - NOUN

                THE PARTS OF SPEECH - ADJECTIVE

                THE PARTS OF SPEECH - PRONOUN

                THE PARTS OF SPEECH - VERB

                TENSE

                MOOD

                TO BE

                VOICE

                CONJUGATION

                ADVERB

                PREPOSITION

                CONJUNCTION

                INTERJECTION

CHAPTER III

                THE SENTENCE

                ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE

                SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION

                THE PARAGRAPH

CHAPTER IV

                FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

CHAPTER V

                PUNCTUATION

                CAPITAL LETTERS

CHAPTER VI

                LETTER WRITING

                THE HEADING

                SUBSCRIPTION

                ADDRESS

                NOTES

                FORMAL INVITATIONS

                NOTES OF INTRODUCTION    

CHAPTER VII

                ERRORS

                GRAMMATICAL ERRORS OF STANDARD AUTHORS

CHAPTER VIII

                PITFALLS TO AVOID

                ELLIPSIS

                THE SPLIT INFINITIVE

                ONE

                ONLY    

                ALONE

                OTHER AND ANOTHER

                AND WITH THE RELATIVE

                LOOSE PARTICIPLES

                BROKEN CONSTRUCTION

                DOUBLE NEGATIVE

                FIRST PERSONAL PRONOUN

                SEQUENCE OF TENSES

                BETWEEN - AMONG

                LESS - FEWER   

                FURTHER - FARTHER

                EACH OTHER - ONE ANOTHER

                EACH, EVERY, EITHER, NEITHER

                NEITHER-NOR

                NONE

                RISE-RAISE

                LAY-LIE

                SAYS I - I SAID

                IN - INTO

                EAT - ATE

                SEQUENCE OF PERSON

                AM COME - HAVE COME

                PAST TENSE - PAST PARTICIPLE

                PREPOSITIONS AND THE OBJECTIVE CASE

                SUMMON - SUMMONS

                UNDENIABLE - UNEXCEPTIONABLE

                THE PRONOUNS

                THAT FOR SO

                THESE - THOSE

                THIS MUCH - THUS MUCH

                FLEE - FLY

                THROUGH - THROUGHOUT

                VOCATION AND AVOCATION

                WAS - WERE

                A OR AN

CHAPTER IX

                STYLE

                DICTION

                PURITY

                PROPRIETY

                SIMPLICITY

                CLEARNESS

                UNITY

                STRENGTH

                HARMONY

                EXPRESSIVE OF WRITER

                KINDS OF STYLE

CHAPTER X

                SUGGESTIONS

CHAPTER XI

                SLANG

CHAPTER XII

                WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS

CHAPTER XIII

                CHOICE OF WORDS

CHAPTER XIV

                ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CHAPTER XV

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