How to Speak and Write Correctly. Joseph Devlin

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664189998

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

       NOUN

       ADJECTIVE

       PRONOUN

       THE 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

       ATTRACTION

       ELLIPSIS

       THE SPLIT INFINITIVE

       ONE

       ONLY

       ALONE

       OTHER AND ANOTHER

       AND WITH THE RELATIVE