Preface
Lessons:
Three Tests of a Good Story
The Beginning or Introduction of a Story
Writing Stories From Introductions
Selecting Good Introductions
Movement in Stories, Lochinvar
Applying the Tests
Making Prose Versions of Poems Full of Action
Judging Stories
The End of a Story
Good Story Endings
Writing a Story in Parts
Completing a Story
Telling a Story
The Meaning and Use of Grammar
Subject and Predicate
Sentences and Not-Sentences
Picture Study
The Barefoot Boy
Marking the Beginning and the End of Sentences
Studying Declarative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory Sentences
Position of the Subject
The Subject Substantive
Studying Sentences for Subject Substantives
The Verb
Studying Sentences for Subject Substantive and Verb
Compound Subjects
Compound Predicates
Use of Compound Subjects and Predicates
Sentences, The Charge of the Light Brigade
What a Topic Is
What a Paragraph Is
Studying Paragraphs for Topics
Outlines
Description from an Outline
The Topic Sentence
Newspaper Topic Sentences and Paragraphs
Making Topic Sentences
How Paragraphs Grow
Analyzing Paragraphs for Ways of Growth
The Village Blacksmith
Writing an Outline
Planning Paragraphs
Paragraph Talks
The Beginning, the Middle and the Ending of a Paragraph
Making Paragraph from Topic Sentences
Writing a Paragraph from a Topic Sentence
Connected Paragraphs
Practice Composition
Practice Composition
Practice Composition
Practice Composition
Conversation Paragraph
Writing Conversation Paragraphs
Inventing Conversation
Comparing the Paragraph and the Stanza
Nouns Common and Proper
Studying Sentences for Nouns
Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Case
Right and Wrong in Language
Pronouns as Subjects
Pronouns in Compound Subjects
Singular and Plural Nouns and Pronouns
Formation of Plural Nouns
Literature, Poetry, The Song of the Chattahoochee
Singular and Plural Verbs
Changes in Verbs for Number and Person
Agreement of Verb with Its Subjects
Contracted Forms
71. Agreement of Verb with Compound Subjects
72. Gender
73. Agreement of Pronoun in Gender
74. Gender in Personification
75. Hiawatha�s Friends
76. Description
77. Description
78. Description
79. Description
80. Agreement of Pronoun in Number
81. Ambiguous Pronouns
82. Apposition
83. What a Modifier Is
84. Studying Sentences for Modifiers
85. Using Modifiers
86. Position of Modifiers
87. Adjectives
88. Articles
89. Singular and Plural Adjectives
90. Adverbs
91. The Form of Adverbs
92. Comparative and Superlative
93. Forming the Comparative and the Superlative
94. Using the Comparative and the Superlative
95. Kipling on �Elegant� Scenery
96. Overworked Adjectives
97. More Adjectives Misused
98. Some Adjectives and Adverbs Often Confused
99. Double Negatives
100. The Choice of Words
101. Synonyms
102. Finding Synonyms
103. Using the Most Appropriate Word
104. Words of Special Association
105. Words Denoting Different Degrees
106. Antonyms
107. Studying Sentences for Antonyms
108. Studying Sentences for Antonyms
109. Words Whose Sound Suggests Their Meaning
110. Studying Selections for Fitting Words
111. Studying Selections for Words Arousing Feeling
112. Thinking of the Right Word
113. The Game of Tracking Words
114. Some Common synonyms and Antonyms
