What is Your Object in Studying English? ... 1
A Few Warning Words ... 3
Two Dictionaries Recommended ... 6
How to Read the Dictionary ... 9
Good Pronunciation ... 12
English Pronunciation is English ... 15
What to Read ... 18
Reading Aloud ... 21
Do You Read the Preface? ... 25
Can You Read Englishmen’s English? ... 28
Verse and Poetry Distinguished ... 30
A Few Terms of Prosody Explained ... 33
About Composition “Don’ts” ... 36
An Easy Sentence to Study ... 38
Idiom and Slang ... 41
Logic and Usage ... 44
A Special Use of Quotation-Marks ... 47
Double Negatives in Current English ... 49
What Does “Would of Come” Mean? ... 51
“No! No! NO!” ... 53
Language and Impression ... 56
Lying without Deceiving ... 59
Puns and Punning ... 62
What is Humour? ... 65
Irish Bulls ... 68
Repartees ... 71
Do You See the Point of the Joke? ... 74
Can You Guess a Riddle? ... 76
The Familiar Essay ... 79
Headings in Newspapers ... 82
Headings and Sub-headings ... 85
The Beginning is a Summary ... 88
Some Common Expressions in News Items ... 91
Letters from Correspondents ... 95
Letters to the Editor ... 98
Leaders and Leaderettes ... 101
The Book Page ... 104
The Woman’s Page ... 107
Dramas, Movies, Etc. ...111
Advertisements ...115
Wanted — A Guide to Idiomatic English for Chinese Students ...119
Reading to Learn the Art of Expression ... 122
About the Study of Grammar ... 125
Knowing Just Enough Grammar to Go Wrong ... 128
A “Foolish” Principle of Composition ... 130
An Aid to Composition ... 133
Some Mistakes to Consider ... 135
Some More Mistakes to Consider ... 137
Make the Word Your Own ... 140
Words that Are Too Often Used ... 142
Metaphorical and Plain Idioms ... 144
Are You a Votary of Mrs Malaprop? ... 147
A Warning Regarding the Use of Words ... 150
What “Literary English” Means ... 152
Simplicity and Affected Simplicity ... 154
Love of Commercialisms ... 157
The Compound-Prepositional Style ... 160
Imitation, Good and Bad ... 163
Paraphrase as an Exercise in Composition ... 166
Composition and Compositions ... 169
On English Letter-Writing ... 172
A Few Points of Form in Letters ... 175
Never Mind the Shortness ... 178
Three Popular Superstitions ... 181
The That-Clause in Letters ... 183
Notes on Some Common Words in Letters ... 186
Two Friendly Letters ... 189
On the Europeanization of the Chinese Language ... 192
Some Fragments of Pai Chü-I’s Poetry Concerning Women ... 199
Some Longer English Lyrics ... 206
How to Study English ... 230
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