Guiding lights: an anthology of prose
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TextPublication details: Chennai Emerald 1993Edition: 1stDescription: 122pISBN: 8179660702Subject(s): English literatureDDC classification: 808.84 Summary: Any text prescribed for the student at the collegiate level concentrates on he development of the language skills. The student must grow familiar with the devices employed by the writer to express his thoughts with precision, economy and force. Vocabulary is the stable material; figures of speech and phrases and idioms play a subsidiary part. The student must comprehend what he reads and should learn to express his own ideas in the language. Nuances of meaning are understood when the learner widens the horizons by learning antonyms and synonyms. Short essays on the familiar ideas of the text offer the much needed training for expression. Mastery of language depends on elaborate effort planned with a purpose. This text aims at such a preparation.
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Any text prescribed for the student at the collegiate level concentrates on he development of the language skills. The student must grow familiar with the devices employed by the writer to express his thoughts with precision, economy and force. Vocabulary is the stable material; figures of speech and phrases and idioms play a subsidiary part. The student must comprehend what he reads and should learn to express his own ideas in the language. Nuances of meaning are understood when the learner widens the horizons by learning antonyms and synonyms. Short essays on the familiar ideas of the text offer the much needed training for expression. Mastery of language depends on elaborate effort planned with a purpose. This text aims at such a preparation.
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