《葛传椝向学习英语者讲话》是从葛传椝先生的三本选集——《葛传椝英文集(Man and Student)》、《英文刍言(A Word to the Wise)》和《英文作文教本(A Textbook of English Composition)》——中选出论述学习英语的三十七篇文章编成的。每篇揭示一个或两个问题,大都是英语语法书和英语修辞学书所不曾讲到的。内容谈到什么读物是初学者需要读的和什么是不宜读的;怎样才能读得精细;说、读和写的关系;掌握常用词汇,选用语词和写的关系;以及拘泥语法条条,一概类推所造成的错误等问题。
1.What to Read
2.Reading Aloud
3.CanYou Read Englishmen's English?
4.What Kind of English?
5.The Question of Background
6.Books on English and Books in English
7.An Easy Sentence to Study
8.What Does "Would of Come" Mean?
9."More Presently".
10.Double Negatives in Current English
11.About the Study of Grammar
12.Knowing Just Enough Grammar to Go Wrong
13.The Language Is the Main Thing
14.Logic and Usage
15.Something Unnatural
16.A Good Knowledge of Bad English
17.Reading Dictionaries
18.MakeYour Own Dictionary
19.Make Another Dictionary of Your Own
20.More aboutWhat to Read
21.Reading to Learn the Art of Expression
22.Learning English Conversation by Imitation
23.Imitation, Good and Bad
24.Tongue and Pen
25.Simply Didn't Know
26.So Many Points
27.How to Say It
28.A "Foolish" Principle of Composition
29.An Aid to Composition
30.Some Mistakes to Consider
31.Some More Mistakes to Consider
32.Better Short Than Long
33.Something More Important Than Enlarging One's Vocabulary
34.Make the Word Your Own
35.AWarning Regarding the Use of Words
36.The Word
37.What "Literary English" Means
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