The King's English and How to Write It: A Practical Text-Book of Composition
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2017
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Print on Demand. This book offers a detailed analysis of English language composition, from the basics of spelling and grammar to formulating essays and understanding the underpinnings of style. The author examines how English composition has changed over time, showing how it has been used throughout history, from its literary giants to its everyday applications. The author provides guidance in fulfilling the demands of composition in any setting. With a careful balance of depth and accessibility, this book is an excellent resource for students of the English language and composition, as well as anyone looking to improve their written communication skills. 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.
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- Title
- The King's English and How to Write It: A Practical Text-Book of Composition
- Author
- John Bygott, A. J. Lawford Jones
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- print-on-demand item
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1330832167
- ISBN 13
- 9781330832165
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For this edition the book has been carefully revised and in some chapters practically re-written; in several sections new matter has been included and additional exercises have been provided. In making these changes we have been much indebted to the criticisms of teachers who have used the work and who, in several cases, have urged that more exercises would be advisable. We give tests bearing upon every chapter, and in the Appendix have reproduced a series of recent English papers set at the Matriculation Examination of the University of London. By means of cross-references, the latter questions have been classified as supplementary exercises upon various chapters, but it was thought better to give the papers as originally set, so that they may be worked in toto if desired.
We hope the work will be found tolerably complete by those who require help for examinations where English Composition (in various forms) is a test, and where the "English" papers are of a type similar to those now set at the "London Matric." We also trust that it may serve as a class-book where no particular examination is in view.
We have tried to make it something more than a "cram book," and where it was necessary to give facts and information, have endeavoured to reduce these to the minimum. Rules and facts concerning what might be termed the mechanical details of composition necessarily predominate in Chapters like II. - V., but, as far as possible, we have tried to make them suggestive rather than dogmatic. In Chapters such as VI., VII., bearing primarily upon the "acquisition of matter," whilst seeking to lead to that "fulness of mind" necessary in all who would write, we have sought to develop the reasoning faculty and to cultivate the imagination. With this end in view, constant stress is laid upon the importance of reading good literature - for inspiration no less than info…
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