The King's English
Edition: SECOND EDITION
Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Published: 1924
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 370
First sentence: Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
Notes: In this edition new examples have been added or substituted here and there.
Table of contents: title: PART I; title: CHAPTER I. VOCABULARY, pp.1-59; title: General Principles	1-8; title: Familiar and far-fetched words	4; title: Concrete and abstract expression	5; title: Circumlocution	6; title: Short and long words	6; title: Saxon and Romance words	7; title: Requirements of different styles	7; title: Malaprops	8; title: Neologisms	18; title: Americanisms	23; title: Foreign words	26; title: Formation	37; title: Slang	47; title: Individual	53; title: Mutual	56; title: Unique	58; title: Aggravate	59; title: CHAPTER II. SYNTAX, pp. 60-170; title: Case	60; title: Number	65; title: Comparatives and superlatives	70; title: Relatives	75-107; title: Defining and non-defining relative clauses	75; title: That and who or which	80; title: And who, and which	85; title: Case of the relative	93; title: Miscellaneous uses of the relative	96; title: It ... that	104; title: Participle and gerund	107; title: Participles	110; title: The gerund	116-133; title: Distinguishing the gerund	116; title: Omission of the gerund subject	125; title: Choice between gerund and infinitive	129; title: Shall and will	133-154; title: The pure system	134; title: The coloured-future system	136; title: The plain-future system	138; title: Second-person questions	139; title: Examples of principal sentences	141; title: Substantival clauses	143; title: Conditional clauses	149; title: Indefinite clauses	151; title: Examples of subordinate clauses	152; title: Perfect infinitive	154; title: Conditionals	156; title: Doubt that	158; title: Prepositions	161; title: CHAPTER III. AIRS AND GRACES, pp. 171-218; title: Certain types of humor	171; title: Elegant variation	175; title: Inversion	180-193; title: Exclamatory	181; title: Balance	182; title: In syntactic clauses	187; title: Negative, and false-emphasis	190; title: Miscellaneous	191; title: Archaism	193-200; title: Occasional	193; title: Sustained	198; title: Metaphor	200; title: Repetition	209; title: Miscellaneous	213-218; title: Trite phrases	213; title: Irony	215; title: Superlatives without the	216; title: Cheap originality	217; title: CHAPTER IV. PUNCTUATION, pp. 219-290; title: General difficulties	219; title: General principles	224; title: The spot plague	226; title: Over-stopping	231; title: Under-stopping	234; title: Grammar and punctuation	235-263; title: Substantival clauses	235; title: Subject, &c., and verb	239; title: Adjectival clauses	242; title: Adverbial clauses	244; title: Parenthesis	247; title: Misplaced commas	248; title: Enumeration	250; title: Comma between independent sentences	254; title: Semicolon with subordinate members	257; title: Exclamations and statements	258; title: Exclamations and questions	259; title: Internal question and exclamation marks	261; title: Unaccountable commas	262; title: The colon	263; title: Miscellaneous	264; title: Dashes	266-275; title: General abuse	266; title: Legitimate uses	267; title: Debatable questions	269; title: Common misuses	274; title: Hyphens	275; title: Quotation marks	280-290; title: Excessive use	280; title: Order with stops	282; title: Single and double	287; title: Misplaced	288; title: Half quotation	289; title: PART II. p. 291 to the end; title: Euphony, §§ 1-10; title: 1. Jingles	291; title: 2. Alliteration	292; title: 3. Repeated prepositions	293; title: 4. Sequence of relatives	293; title: 5. Sequence of that, &c.	294; title: 6. Metrical prose	295; title: 7. Sentence accent	295; title: 8. Causal as clauses	298; title: 9. Wens and hypertrophied members	300; title: 10. Careless repetition	303; title: Quotation, &c., §§ 11-19; title: 11. Common misquotations	305; title: 12. Uncommon misquotations of well-known passages	305; title: 13. Misquotation of less familiar passages	306; title: 14. Misapplied and misunderstood quotations and phrases	306; title: 15. Allusion	307; title: 16. Incorrect allusion	308; title: 17. Dovetailed and adapted quotations and phrases	308; title: 18. Trite quotation	310; title: 19. Latin abbreviations, &c.	311; title: Grammar, §§ 20-37; title: 20. Unequal yokefellows and defective double harness	311; title: 21. Common parts	314; title: 22. The wrong turning	316; title: 23. Ellipse in subordinate clauses	317; title: 24. Some illegitimate infinitives	317; title: 25. Split infinitives	319; title: 26. Compound passives	319; title: 27. Confusion with negatives	321; title: 28. Omission of as	324; title: 29. Other liberties taken with as	324; title: 30. Brachylogy	326; title: 31. Between two stools	327; title: 32. The impersonal one	328; title: 33. Between ... or	328; title: 34. A placed between the adjective and its noun	329; title: 35. Do as substitute verb	330; title: 36. Fresh starts	330; title: 37. Vulgarisms and colloquialisms	331; title: Meaning, §§ 38-48; title: 38. Tautology	331; title: 39. Redundancies	332; title: 40. As to whether	333; title: 41. Superfluous but and though	334; title: 42. If and when	334; title: 43. Maltreated idioms	336; title: 44. Truisms and contradictions in terms	339; title: 45. Double emphasis	341; title: 46. Split auxiliaries	342; title: 47. Overloading	343; title: 48. Demonstrative, noun, and participle or adjective	344; title: Ambiguity, §§ 49-52; title: 49. False scent	345; title: 50. Misplacement of words	346; title: 51. Ambiguous position	347; title: 52. Ambiguous enumeration	348; title: Style, § 53 to the end; title: 53. Antics	348; title: 54. Journalese	351; title: 55. Somewhat, &c.	352; title: 56. Clumsy patching	355; title: 57. Omission of the conjunction that	356; title: 58. Meaningless while	357; title: 59. Commercialisms	358; title: 60. Pet Phrases	359; title: 61. Also as conjunction; and &c.	359