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(55 words.)Įncouraged by his wife, Macbeth achieved his ambition and realized the prediction of the witches by murdering Duncan and becoming king of Scotland in his place. He was thus enabled to succeed Duncan as king. Typically, only the book itself is included. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth murdered Duncan. The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. The king of Scotland at this time was Duncan. The witches told him that this wish of his would come true. This led him to wish to become king of Scotland. A common violation of conciseness is the presentation of a single complex idea, step by step, in a series of sentences which might to advantage be combined into one. Trafalgar, which was Nelson's last battleĪs the active voice is more concise than the passive, and the positive statement is more concise than negative, many of the examples given under Rules 14 and 15 illustrate this rule as well. His brother, who is a member of the same firm Who is, which was, and the like are often superfluous. Tenney later revised it for publication as The Elements and Practice of Composition (1935). (Harcourt republished it in 52-page format in 1920.) 1 He and editor Edward A. wrote The Elements of Style in 1918 and privately published it in 1919, for use at the university. See also under case, character, nature, system in Chapter V. Cornell University English professor William Strunk Jr.

In especial the expression the fact that should be revised out of every sentence in which it occurs. Many expressions in common use violate this principle: the question as to whether

This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

The elements of style by william strunk william strunk jr