【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 blanket. Economy ? Eliminate the unnecessary words in the following sentences and then slightly alter the structure of these sentences. Economy ? Wordy sentences: ? 1) It was a figment of her imagination that someone was starting at her. ? 2) As we walked in the direction of home I felt as if I had never been happier. ? 3) On the table Henry had placed a small object that was the color of lavender. ? 4) She looked as though she was angry. ? 5) In the next booth there sat one of bestknown actors of our time. Economy ? 6) After the conference had concluded, the mittee chairman came to share experience. ? 7) Fall is the time of the year that I like best. ? 8) In many schools they have regular film operators. ? 9) We find the present situation that exists at the moment intolerable. ? 10) This problem has arisen in the case of chemistry and physics. Economy ? Revised: ? 1) She imagined that someone was staring at her. ? 2) As we walked home, I felt I had never been happier. ? 3) On the table Henry had placed a small lavender object. ? 4) She looked angry. ? 5) In the next booth sat one of the bestknown of our time. Economy ? 6) After the conference, the mittee chairman came to share experience. ? 7) Fall is the time that I like best. ? 8) Many schools have regular film operators. ? 9) We find the present situation intolerable. ? 10) This problem has arisen in chemistry and physics. Skillful repetition of words ? Repeating words skillfully here means judiciously limiting the repetition to those sentences we wish to have the greatest force. It does not mean indiscriminate repetition, which is wholly ineffective. Note how in the following paragraph the word power is skillfully repeated: Skillful repetition of words ? Please note how in the following paragraph the power is skillfully repeated: ? He has the power to enter and to bee what he sees and paints. It is a power bequeathed to him by his childhood, a power mon to most children, but one lost away from them when they take that long change toward the physical and material life of adults. It is the power not so much to recognize what is there to be seen, but even while gazing at it to imagine it as if it had never before existed: a power without and to rediscover life continuously. Skillful repetition of words ? Read the following paragraph. Notice how some words or sentence patterns in the sentence are repeated. What does the repetition tell you about the message of the paragraph? Skillful repetition of words ? It is easy to find scapegoats for the pollution problem: to blame the industrialist, to blame scientist, to blame advertising or capitalism, or in one prehensive condemnation, to blame society。 but everyone who drives a car or burns electricity, or flushes a toilet has a share of the blame。 it is not blaming that is needed, but a conscientious and consistent attempt to make blame unnecessary. Sentence Variety ? Short sentences are excellent for municating a series of actions, emotions, or impression。 longer sentences are more likely to be appropriate for analysis or explanation. If you consistently construct short, simple sentences in a paragraph, your writing will sound monotonous and may seem immature. Conversely, if you write sentences which are long and dense, your paragraph will be hard to read. Sentence Variety ? In order to make your paragraph effective and vivid, you have to mix short, simple sentences with longer, plex or pound sentences. The main thing is to be sure you have some variety in sentence structure within your paragraph. Sentence Variety ? There are three mon techniques you may use to vary your sentences in length, structure and order. ? a. Sentence Combining ? b. Structure Changing ? c. Transformation Sentence Variety ? a. Sentence Combining ? You can bine sentences by using mas, semicolons, conjunctions or relative pronouns. ? Weak: Aluminum is light and strong. It is widely used in industry. Sentence Variety ? Revised: ? Since aluminum is light and strong, it is widely used industry. ? Aluminum is light and strong, so it is widely used in industry. ? Aluminum is widely used in industry because it is light and strong. ? Sentence Variety ? Weak: ? Maxwell Perkins was born in 1884 and he died in 1947. He worked for Charles Scribner’ s Son for thirtyseven years. He was head editor of Scribner’ s for the last twenty of these thirtyseven years. He was almost certainly the most important American editor in the first half of the twentieth century. Sentence Variety ? Revised: ? Maxwell Perkins (18841947), head editor of Charles Scribner’ s Son for the last twenty of his thirtyseven tears with that pany, was almost certainly the most important American editor in the fist half of the twentieth century. Sentence Variety ? Combine the following sentences to show their logical relationship, using mas, semicolons, conjunctions and relative pronouns where you need them. ? 1. Iron and steel are engineering metals. These metals are widely used in industrial. ? 2. Nature does not provide a material. The material can do all the thing. We want this material to do all the things. Let us make this material ourselves. Sentence Variety ? 3. The project was finally pleted. We had done a good month’ s work. ? 4. The engineers are investigating a problem. The problem is whether color tubes are reliable for automotive use. Cathode （陰極） ray tubes are routinely used in aircraft and ship radars. ? 5. The effort is backed by the industrial division. This effort is called the Standard Hardware Interface Program. The job of the industrial