The Compounding of English Words: When and Why Joining or Separation Is Preferable, With Concise Rules and Alphabetical Lists (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Master the rules of joining or separating English compounds and improve writing accuracy in everyday work. You’ll get practical guidance designed for printers, editors, and serious readers of English usage.
This book presents a systematic approach to the compounding of English words. It emphasizes practical rules, illustrated lists, and a focus on how forms are used in real writing, with printers and proofreaders in mind. The discussion aims to clarify when a term should be written as one word, two words, or with a hyphen, and how to apply these decisions consistently in practice.
- Clear criteria for choosing between joined and separated forms, with emphasis on usefulness in daily work.
- Practical lists and examples that show common patterns and avoid overgeneral rules.
- Guidance on aligning writing habits with dictionary usage and standard office style.
- Strategies for checking and revising compound forms to reduce errors in proofreading and typesetting.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book is the first systematic attempt to unravel the complexities of English compounding. The author, a scholar of English in its various forms, discovered that prior rules promulgated for compounding all proved practically worthless, mainly because they were not based upon any real synthetic principles. The author presents a reasoned series of rules and illustrations to provide guidance in creating approximate consistency in word-joining. The work is particularly suited to the needs of printers and compositors, but is also valuable to authors, proof-readers, stenographers, teachers, and, in fact, all educated persons who care about writing correct English. The author includes a critique of noted language teachers for their dissemination of misinformation, and discusses methods for creating solid-word forms, hyphenated compounds, and indispensable joining of adjective and noun. This book gives readers a wealth of information on how to write and print words in English so as to create clear, consistent, and correct communication. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9780282192853_0
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