Plain English

Chapter 400: TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

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A practical course aimed at adult and working-class learners teaches the fundamentals of English by emphasizing underlying principles rather than memorized rules. It systematically treats parts of speech, nouns and verbs, verb inflection and time forms, participles and infinitives, pronouns, modifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, clauses, sentence building and analysis, capitalization and punctuation, and an extensive spelling section on syllabification, derivation, prefixes, suffixes, homonyms and common errors. Plain-language explanations and exercises encourage regular study, concentration and self-reliance, with the goal of improving fluency, correctness and confidence in both spoken and written expression.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

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1. Punctuation errors such as incorrect or missing end-of-sentence punctuation, period for comma in mid-sentence, and missing end quotation marks have been corrected without comment. Inconsistency in the author's spelling of certain words, such as today/to-day have been retained.

2. The list broken across pp. 44-45 (section 80.) and the list of abbreviations broken across pp. 295-296 (section 489.) were rearranged to preserve alphabetical order when pages were joined.

3. The numbering of Exercise 4 on p. 110 has been corrected.

4. Commas were added to separate the abbreviations on p. 305.

5. Text and font corrections have been marked with a dotted gray underline. Holding the mouse cursor over the underlined word will display the original text or a note about font change.