What is Your Object in Studying English? ... 1 A Few Warning Words ... 3 Two Dictionaries Recommended ... 6 How to Read the Dictionary ... 9 Good Pronunciation ... 12 English Pronunciation is English ... 15 What to Read ... 18 Reading Aloud ... 21 Do You Read the Preface? ... 25 Can You Read Englishmen’s English? ... 28 Verse and Poetry Distinguished ... 30 A Few Terms of Prosody Explained ... 33 About Composition “Don’ts” ... 36 An Easy Sentence to Study ... 38 Idiom and Slang ... 41 Logic and Usage ... 44 A Special Use of Quotation-Marks ... 47 Double Negatives in Current English ... 49 What Does “Would of Come” Mean? ... 51 “No! No! NO!” ... 53 Language and Impression ... 56 Lying without Deceiving ... 59 Puns and Punning ... 62 What is Humour? ... 65 Irish Bulls ... 68 Repartees ... 71 Do You See the Point of the Joke? ... 74 Can You Guess a Riddle? ... 76 The Familiar Essay ... 79 Headings in Newspapers ... 82 Headings and Sub-headings ... 85 The Beginning is a Summary ... 88 Some Common Expressions in News Items ... 91 Letters from Correspondents ... 95 Letters to the Editor ... 98 Leaders and Leaderettes ... 101 The Book Page ... 104 The Woman’s Page ... 107 Dramas, Movies, Etc. ...111 Advertisements ...115 Wanted — A Guide to Idiomatic English for Chinese Students ...119 Reading to Learn the Art of Expression ... 122 About the Study of Grammar ... 125 Knowing Just Enough Grammar to Go Wrong ... 128 A “Foolish” Principle of Composition ... 130 An Aid to Composition ... 133 Some Mistakes to Consider ... 135 Some More Mistakes to Consider ... 137 Make the Word Your Own ... 140 Words that Are Too Often Used ... 142 Metaphorical and Plain Idioms ... 144 Are You a Votary of Mrs Malaprop? ... 147 A Warning Regarding the Use of Words ... 150 What “Literary English” Means ... 152 Simplicity and Affected Simplicity ... 154 Love of Commercialisms ... 157 The Compound-Prepositional Style ... 160 Imitation, Good and Bad ... 163 Paraphrase as an Exercise in Composition ... 166 Composition and Compositions ... 169 On English Letter-Writing ... 172 A Few Points of Form in Letters ... 175 Never Mind the Shortness ... 178 Three Popular Superstitions ... 181 The That-Clause in Letters ... 183 Notes on Some Common Words in Letters ... 186 Two Friendly Letters ... 189 On the Europeanization of the Chinese Language ... 192 Some Fragments of Pai Chü-I’s Poetry Concerning Women ... 199 Some Longer English Lyrics ... 206 How to Study English ... 230
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