| 词组 | rules |
| 释义 | rules There exists in the folk memory a set of facetious grammatical rules that pop up in various places and in various forms from time to time. They are to be found in Harper 1985 and Einstein 1985, for example, and in each instance the rules are ascribed to some old newspaper editor of beloved memory. The order may change, the phraseology may vary, but the essential idea is always the same. The rules we show here are taken from an article by George W. Feinstein in College English, April 1960. We will give only the first fifteen of his twenty rules, because they are the ones that seem to turn up most often. 1. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. 2. Just between you and I, case is important. 3. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. 4. Watch out for irregular verbs which has crope into our language. 5. Don't use no double negatives. 6. A writer mustn't shift your point of view. 7. When dangling, don't use participles. 8. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should. 9. Don't write a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it. 10. About sentence fragments. 11. In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart. 12. Don't use commas, which aren't necessary. 13. It's important to use apostrophe's right. 14. Don't abbrev. 15. Check to see if you any words out. The beauty of rules like these is that almost anybody can come up with the same or similar ones and believe that they are original creations. Mr. Feinstein's set is the earliest we have found in print, but similar sets have undoubtedly been around for many years. In the realm of language, rule is a word that the wise tend not to bandy about. Many observers from the 18th century to the present have pointed out the limitations of rules as a guide to good writing: • Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties —Samuel Johnson, The Idler, 19 May 1759 • I think the following rules will cover most cases: ... (vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous —George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946 • We ought not to get so straitjacketed in "rules" that we sacrifice vigor and clarity to form —James J. Kil-patrick, Portland Oregonian, 2 Nov. 1985 |
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