Today's study notes:
Rule 7. A participial phase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject.
Example 1. Walking slowly down the road, he saw a woman accompanied by two children.
--> He saw a woman, accompanied by two children, walking slowly down the road.
Example 2. Without a friend to counsel him, the temptation proved irresistible.
--> Without a friend to counsel him, he found the irresistible.
If you don't follow this rule your sentence will sometimes look ridiculous. But I often do that! :/
Rule 8. Divide words at line-ends, in accordance with their formation and pronunciation.
A. Divide the word according to its formation: know-ledge (not knowl-edge), de-scribe (not des-cribe. WHAT?? I've been writing like that... X/)
B. Divide "on the vowel": edi-ble, ordi-nary, espe-cial, presi-dent
C. Divide between double letters, unless they come at the end of the simple form of the word: Cincin-nati, refer-ring, but tell-ing.
Rule 9. Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic.
Yep, my professors emphasize this.
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