Tuesday, 10/4: Vocabulary, CWP

* Pray

* Grammar: Section 16a and b

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.
--Strunk and White

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
--W. Somerset Maugham

I apologize for this long letter; I didn't have time to shorten it.
--Pliny


1. Read the sections.
2. Look through your essays and journals. Find four total examples of redundancies and repetitions. Copy them into your notes and strike out or rewrite them.

* Vocabulary words 31-40
31.akin
32.corroborate
33.inexorable
34.insipid
35.nefarious
36.physiognomy
37.retinue
38.suppliant
39.tedium
40.torrid

* CWP

HW: CWP

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