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共 661 题- PLAIN ENGLISH
- MARIAN WHARTON
- FOREWORD
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- SPELLING
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- Lesson I
- Open Letter
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- GOOD ENGLISH--WHAT IS IT?
- USE YOUR DICTIONARY
- OUR LANGUAGE
- WHEN WE BEGIN TO THINK
- Exercise 1
- OUR EXPRESSION
- THE THOUGHT AND THE WORD
- A COMPLETE THOUGHT
- Exercise 2
- SUBJECT AND PREDICATE
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- SPELLING
- LESSON 1
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 2
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- KINDS OF SENTENCES
- Exercise 1
- WORDS--THEIR USES
- THE NAMES OF THINGS
- Exercise 2
- WORDS THAT ASSERT
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- I DO NOT OBEY, I THINK.
- SPELLING
- LESSON 2
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 3
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- WORDS ADDED TO NOUNS
- Exercise 1
- WORDS ADDED TO VERBS
- Exercise 2
- WORDS USED IN PLACE OF NOUNS
- Exercise 3
- PREPOSITIONS
- Exercise 4
- CONJUNCTIONS
- Exercise 5
- IT CAN BE DONE
- INTERJECTIONS
- Exercise 6
- SPELLING
- LESSON 3
- Key to Pronunciation
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 4
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- CLASSES OF NOUNS
- COLLECTIVE NOUNS
- Exercise 1
- ABSTRACT NOUNS
- Exercise 2
- NUMBER FORM
- GENDER
- POSSESSIVE FORM
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- FIVE AND FIFTY
- Exercise 5
- I extend to you my right hand.
- I make you a pledge.
- Here is my pledge to you:--
- SPELLING
- LESSON 4
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 5
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- THE WORD THAT ASSERTS
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- INCOMPLETE VERBS
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- Exercise 7
- WHO IS A CHRISTIAN?
- SPELLING
- LESSON 5
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 6
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- INFLECTION--CHANGES IN FORM
- PAST TIME
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- DOING DOUBLE WORK
- LET US SUM UP
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- OUT OF THE DARK
- List of Irregular Verbs
- SPELLING
- LESSON 6
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 7
- I wonder if you have ever thought as to how our language grew.
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- FUTURE TIME
- Exercise 1
- PERFECT TIME
- PAST PERFECT
- Exercise 2
- FUTURE PERFECT TIME
- LET US SUM UP
- I see I saw I shall see.
- I have seen I had seen I shall have seen
- VERBS--SUMMARY
- TIME FORMS
- Present
- Past
- Future
- Present Perfect
- Past Perfect
- Future Perfect
- Exercise 3
- The Working Class Must Strike the Blow
- Exercise 4
- A MAGIC WORD
- TENSE
- Exercise 5
- SPELLING
- LESSON 7
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 8
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- PROGRESSIVE VERB PHRASES
- Present Progressive
- Past Progressive
- Future Progressive
- Present Perfect Progressive
- Past Perfect Progressive
- Future Perfect Progressive
- Exercise 1
- ACTIVE AND PASSIVE
- Exercise 2
- SUMMARY
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- SPELLING
- LESSON 8
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 9
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- PARTICIPLES
- PARTICIPLE PHRASES
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- INFINITIVES
- I wish _to learn_ my lesson quickly.
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- DON'TS FOR INFINITIVES
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- SPELLING
- LESSON 9
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 10
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- HELPING VERBS
- Exercise 1
- SHOULD AND WOULD
- Exercise 2
- MAY AND MIGHT
- Exercise 3
- CAN AND COULD
- Exercise 4
- MUST AND OUGHT
- Exercise 5
- DO AND DID
- Exercise 6
- Exercise 7
- Exercise 8
- SPELLING
- LESSON 10
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 11
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- THE VERB "BE"
- A FREQUENT MISTAKE
- Exercise 1
- WITH HELPING VERBS
- Exercise 2
- PAST TIME FORMS
- Exercise 3
- VERBS OF SIMILAR FORM
- Exercise 4
- COMMON ERRORS
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- You say "Believe;" I say "Trust."
- You say "Creed;" I say "Faith."
- It is not God, but the devil, who whispers: "Think at your peril!"
- Exercise 7
- Exercise 8
- SPELLING
- LESSON 11
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 12
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- IN PLACE OF A NOUN
- KINDS OF PRONOUNS
- COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS
- Reflexive
- Emphatic
- Exercise 1
- SINGULAR AND PLURAL
- Exercise 2
- POSSESSIVE FORM
- POSSESSIVE FORM
- OBJECT FORM
- GENDER
- THE LITTLE VERB _BE_
- Agreement
- PERSONIFICATION
- REMEMBER
- SUMMARY
- Exercise 3
- I.
- God said, "What has he done?"
- I showed them.
- God said, "Thy hands are pure. Lift up thy robe."
- I raised it; my feet were red, blood-red, as if I had trodden in wine.
- God said, "How is this?"
- God said, "_On what?_"
- II.
- God said, "How is it you are here together today?"
- God said, "Whom are you now come to accuse before Me?"
- I said, "We are come to accuse no man."
- And God bent and said, "My children--what is it that you seek?"
- God said, "Go, take the message down to him!"
- I said, "But what _is_ the message?"
- God said, "Upon your hearts it is written; take it down to him."
- And one said, "Ah! but their dresses are beautiful!"
- But another said, "Hush, it is the light from their faces!"
- The Cry of the People
- SPELLING
- LESSON 12
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 13
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS
- Who Whose Whom
- RELATIVE PRONOUNS
- COMMON ERRORS
- SUMMARY
- Pronoun--In Place of a Noun
- CLASSES
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- Exercise 7
- Exercise 8
- Exercise 9
- Exercise 10
- Exercise 11
- SPELLING
- LESSON 13
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 14
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- CLASSES OF ADJECTIVES
- HOW TO DISCOVER AN ADJECTIVE
- Exercise 1
- QUALIFYING ADJECTIVES
- LIMITING ADJECTIVES
- Numeral Adjectives
- Demonstratives
- Exercise 2
- ARTICLES
- Exercise 3
- INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVES
- INDEFINITES
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- SPELLING
- LESSON 14
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 15
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- ADJECTIVES AND PRONOUNS
- ADJECTIVES AS NOUNS
- ADJECTIVES WITH PRONOUNS
- COMPARISON
- DESCENDING COMPARISON
- Descending Comparison
- PARTICIPLES AS ADJECTIVES
- Exercise 1
- PARTICIPLE PHRASES
- USES OF ADJECTIVES
- COMMON ERRORS
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- THE COLLECTION
- SPELLING
- LESSON 15
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 16
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- WORDS ADDED TO VERBS
- HOW TO TELL ADVERBS
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- CLASSES OF ADVERBS
- Exercise 3
- INTERROGATIVE ADVERBS
- Exercise 4
- ADVERBS OF MODE
- PHRASE ADVERBS
- ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
- Exercise 5
- NOUNS AS ADVERBS
- Exercise 6
- THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS
- SPELLING
- LESSON 16
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 17
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- COMPARISON OF ADVERBS
- Exercise 1
- POSITION OF ADVERBS
- Exercise 2
- ADVERBS AND INFINITIVES
- COMMON ERRORS
- I am really glad to know it.
- I want to go worse than I ever did.
- I want to go _more_ than I ever did.
- Exercise 3
- DO NOT USE TOO MANY ADVERBS
- Exercise 4
- SPELLING
- LESSON 17
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 18
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- A GROUP OF WORDS
- Exercise 1
- USED AS ADVERBS
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- PREPOSITIONS
- ADVERBS AND PREPOSITIONS
- Exercise 4
- PHRASE PREPOSITIONS
- Exercise 5
- THE SUNLIGHT LAY ACROSS MY BED
- And God said, "Stand away off."
- God said, "The curtain is thick; they are feasting."
- And I said, "But the men who came in last. They saw?"
- God said, "They let the curtain fall behind them--and they forgot!"
- I said, "How came they by their jars of wine?"
- And I said, "And if they had fallen as they climbed--?"
- God said, "They had been wine."
- I stood away off watching in the sunshine, and I shivered.
- I said to God, "Is it a wind?"
- God said, "A wind."
- I said to God, "How is it so quiet?"
- He said, "They have gone away to drink it."
- I said, "They drink it--their own!"
- God said, "Where will you go?"
- I said, "To the earth from which I came; it was better there."
- SPELLING
- LESSON 18
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 19
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- AN IMPORTANT WORD
- Exercise 1
- A GOVERNING WORD
- Where to Put the Preposition
- POSSESSIVE PHRASES
- COMMON ERRORS
- I was home yesterday.
- The Correct Preposition
- THE PREPOSITION WITH VERBS
- Exercise 2
- THE ANGEL OF DISCONTENT
- Exercise 3
- SPELLING
- LESSON 19
- 3. We have also compound prepositions formed:
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 20
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- CONJUNCTIONS
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- CLASSES OF CONJUNCTIONS
- CO-ORDINATE CONJUNCTIONS
- NOUNS
- Exercise 3
- PRONOUNS
- Exercise 4
- VERBS
- Exercise 5
- ADJECTIVES
- Exercise 6
- ADVERBS
- Exercise 7
- PHRASES
- Verb Phrases
- Exercise 8
- Prepositional Phrases
- Exercise 9
- Infinitives and Participles
- Exercise 10
- CLAUSES
- CORRELATIVES
- Exercise 11
- SPELLING
- LESSON 20
- 2. By changing _ble_ to _bly_, as in _ably_, _nobly_, etc.
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 21
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- SUBORDINATE CONJUNCTIONS
- CLASSES OF SUBORDINATE CONJUNCTIONS
- SUMMARY
- Exercise 1
- PHRASE CONJUNCTIONS
- Exercise 2
- NOUN CLAUSES
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- SPELLING
- LESSON 21
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 22
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
- Exercise 1
- THE INTRODUCING WORD
- Exercise 2
- WHICH RELATIVE PRONOUN TO USE
- I have read the book, _which_ I found very interesting.
- I have read the book _and_ I found it very interesting.
- ADJECTIVE CLAUSES WITH CONJUNCTIONS
- THE LITTLE WORD "AS"
- CONNECTIVE WORDS
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- SPELLING
- LESSON 22
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 23
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- INTERJECTIONS
- 2. +Words used instead of a question+; as, _Eh?_ _Hey?_
- 3. +Words used instead of a command+; as:
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- EXCLAMATORY WORDS
- 3. Adjectives like, _good_, _well_, _brave_, _welcome_, _strange_.
- 4. Adverbs like, _out_, _indeed_, _how_, _why_, _back_, _forward_.
- 5. Prepositions like, _on_, _up_, _down_.
- 6. Phrases like, _Oh dear_, _dear me_, _good bye_.
- Exercise 3
- YES AND NO
- OTHER INDEPENDENT EXPRESSIONS
- 1. +A word used in address.+ For example:
- 3. +Words and phrases used parenthetically+, as for example:
- INTRODUCTORY WORDS
- Exercise 4
- EXPLANATORY WORDS
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- ABSOLUTE CONSTRUCTION
- Exercise 7
- Exercise 8
- SPELLING
- LESSON 23
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 24
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- SENTENCE BUILDING
- THREE KINDS OF SENTENCES
- In Exclamatory Form
- ANALYSIS--SIMPLE SENTENCES
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- ANOTHER ELEMENT
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- COPULATIVE VERBS
- Exercise 5
- VERB PHRASES
- I shall very soon find out the trouble.
- I will not go.
- I do not obey, I think.
- LET US SUM UP
- Exercise 6
- SPELLING
- LESSON 24
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 25
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- THE SUBJECT OF A SIMPLE SENTENCE
- PLACE OF THE SUBJECT IN A SENTENCE
- I have never heard one word to the contrary.
- Exercise 1
- THE COMPLETE PREDICATE
- INCOMPLETE VERBS
- THE OBJECT OF THE VERB
- VERBS OF STATE OR CONDITION
- Exercise 2
- MODIFIERS OF THE SIMPLE SENTENCE
- ORDER OF ELEMENTS
- Exercise 3
- HUNGER AND COLD
- SPELLING
- LESSON 25
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 26
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- THE SIMPLE SENTENCE
- Exercise 1
- COMPLEX SENTENCES
- KINDS OF DEPENDENT CLAUSES
- NOUN CLAUSES
- 2. +The noun clause may be used as the object of a verb+, thus:
- I admit _that I cannot understand your argument_.
- 3. +The noun clause may be used as the predicate complement+, thus:
- I now refer to _what he claims_.
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
- 1. +An adjective clause may modify the subject+, thus:
- I could not find the man _I wanted_.
- I could not find the man _whom I wanted_.
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
- ADVERB CLAUSES
- ANALYZING COMPLEX SENTENCES
- Exercise 6
- Exercise 7
- Exercise 8
- Exercise 9
- SPELLING
- LESSON 26
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 27
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- KINDS OF SENTENCES
- Exercise 1
- KINDS OF COMPOUND SENTENCES
- Exercise 2
- SENTENCE ANALYSIS
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- SUMMARY
- Modifiers of the Subject
- SIMPLE SUBJECT ENLARGED
- SIMPLE PREDICATE ENLARGED
- Exercise 5
- Exercise 6
- SPELLING
- LESSON 27
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 28
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- CAPITAL LETTERS
- RULES FOR THE USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- ABBREVIATIONS AND CONTRACTIONS
- COMMONLY USED ABBREVIATIONS
- I will arrive tomorrow a. m., or, You may call about eight p. m.
- Exercise 4
- SPELLING
- LESSON 28
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 29
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- PUNCTUATION
- THE COMMA
- WORDS WHICH FORM A SERIES
- PHRASES WHICH FORM SERIES
- CLAUSES USED IN A SERIES
- Exercise 1
- THE SEMI-COLON
- RULES FOR THE USE OF THE SEMI-COLON
- RULES FOR THE USE OF THE COLON
- RULES FOR THE USE OF THE PERIOD
- Exercise 2
- My dear Mr Smith Your letter of the 15th has been received
- Exercise 3
- JOHN BROWN
- SPELLING
- LESSON 29
- PATIENTS or PATIENCE
- NEGLIGENCE or NEGLECT
- OBSERVANCE or OBSERVATION
- RELATIVES or RELATIONS
- SECTS or SEX
- STATUE or STATUTE
- PLAIN ENGLISH
- LESSON 30
- THE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.
- THE ETERNAL WHY
- THE INTERROGATION POINT
- THE EXCLAMATION POINT
- THE DASH
- PARENTHESIS
- THE PUNCTUATION OF THE PARENTHESIS
- OTHER USES OF THE PARENTHESIS
- THE BRACKET
- QUOTATION MARKS
- He remarked, "I believe it to be true."
- THE QUOTATION WITHIN A QUOTATION
- PUNCTUATION WITH QUOTATION MARKS
- A wise man said, "Know thyself."
- THE APOSTROPHE
- THE HYPHEN
- ADDITIONAL MARKS OF PUNCTUATION
- MARKS OF ELLIPSIS
- MARKS OF REFERENCE
- Exercise 1
- THE MARSEILLAISE
- CHORUS
- THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
- SPELLING
- LESSON 30
- THE END AND THE BEGINNING
- Abbreviations, 486-489
- Absolute Construction, 399
- Contractions, 485
- Dictionary, Use of, 4
- Exclamatory Words, 390-391
- Explanatory Words, 398
- Good English, defined, 2
- Grammar, English, defined, 10
- Independent Expressions, 393
- Introductory Words, 394-396
- Parts of Speech, 24
- Responsives, 392
- Thought, Complete, 12-14
- 3. The numbering in Exercise 4 on p. 110 (section 193.) was corrected.
- 4. Added ditto marks (") to the table on p. 153 (section 270).
- 6. The following typographical errors were corrected: