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`ELEMENTS
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`OF
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`Style
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`WILLIAM BSYTRUNK J1".
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`With Revisions, an Introduction,
`and a Chapter on Writing
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`BY
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`E. B.WHITE
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`FOURTH EDITION
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`Earlier editions © 1959, 1972 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc_
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`The Introduction originally appeared, in slightly different fonn, in The New
`Yorker, and was copyrighted in 1957 by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc,
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`The Elements of Style, Revised Edition, by William Strunlc ]r. and Edward
`A. Tenney, copyright 1935 by Oliver Strunk.
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`Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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`Strunlc, William, 1869-1946.
`The elements of style I by William Strunk, Jr. ; with revisions,
`an introduction, and a chapter on writing by E. B. White. — 4th ed.
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`ISBN 0-205-30902-X (paperback). — ISBN 0-205-31342-6 (casebound)
`1. English language—Rhetoric.
`2. English language—Sty1e.
`3. Report writing.
`I. White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-
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`II. Title.
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`THE ELEMENTS on STYLE
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`If the antecedent consists of a group of words, the rela~
`tive comes at the end of the group, unless this would cause
`ambiguity.
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`The Superintendent of the Chicago Division, who
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`No ambiguity results from the above. But
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`A proposal to amend the Sherman Act, which has been
`variously judged
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`leaves the reader wondering whether it is the proposal or
`the Act that has been variously judged. The relative clause
`must be moved forward, to read, “A proposal, which has
`been variously judged, to amend the Sherman Act. .
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`Similarly
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`The grandson of William
`Henry Harrison, who
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`William Henry Harri-
`son’s grandson, Benjamin
`Harrison, who
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`A noun in apposition may come between antecedent and
`relative, because in such a combination no real ambiguity
`can arise.
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`The Duke of York, his brother, who was regarded with
`hostility by the Wliigs
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`Modifiers should come, if possible, next to the words they
`modify. If several expressions modify the same word, they
`should be arranged so that no wrong relation is suggested.
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`All the members were
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`Not all the members
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`not present.
`She only found two
`mistakes.
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`were present.
`She found only two
`mistakes.
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`The director said he
`hoped ail members would
`give generously to the
`Fund at a meeting of the
`committee yesterday.
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`At a meeting of the
`committee yesterday, the
`director said he hoped all
`members would give gen»
`erously to the Fund.
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