The
    Elements of Style
    by
    William Strunk, Jr.
    Professor of English
    Cornell University
    Privately Printed
    Ithaca, New York
    1918
    Copyright
    1918
    By William Strunk, Jr.
    Press of W. P. Humphrey, Geneva, N.Y.
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    Contents
    I. Introductory
    II. Elementary Rules of Usage
    1. Form the possessive singular of nouns with 's
    2. In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last
    3. Enclose parenthetic expressions between commas
    4. Place a comma before and or but introducing an independent clause
    5. Do not join independent clauses by a comma
    6. Do not break sentences in two
    7. A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammati