tailieunhanh - Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_5

Tham khảo tài liệu 'penguin dictionary of american english usage and style_5', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | internecine 191 of the phrase according to Mr. Johnson it tends to apply only to the word preferred phrase. And the clause about photographs is almost a non sequitur. So the story was revised for a later edition Vandalism was the word preferred by Martin D. Franks executive director of the committee to describe last night s incident according to Mark Johnson the campaign committee s press secretary. What he described as sensitive files were still safely under lock and key he said. The revised story saying nothing about photographs is an improvement. But What he described as is unnecessary inasmuch as sensitive files is in quotation marks and the sentence ends with he said. The passages below are from a biography. Nothing but thorough recasting of the sentences could help them. In terms of the prosecutor s future philosophy there seemed not to be one word in the controversy about the freedom of the press provided under the First Amendment. In terms of professional memberships moreover nothing succeeded like success as Black himself noted in an interview published after his death I was trying a lot of cases against corporations jury cases and I found out that all the corporation lawyers were in the Klan. Sticking an in terms of into a sentence is no replacement for clear thinking. No one can be expected to speak in terms of a future philosophy or otherwise foresee the future. Besides there cannot be one word about press freedom it takes at least two words. The first sample sen tence from the biography could be rewritten this way The prosecutor s arguments did not foreshadow his future philosophy. There seemed to be nothing in the controversy about. The latter quotation from the book is unwieldy and obscure somehow tying professional memberships to the cliché about success and tacking on a quotation with still another idea. A rescue attempt would be futile. INTERNECINE. Internecine pronounced inter-NIECE-sin among other ways is a useful adjective in the sense of .