《葛传椝英语写作》是葛传椝先生为我国读者撰写的英语写作专著，可作高校教材，亦可作自学课本。除对写作基本知识、写作技巧和文体修辞分章介绍之外，还特别对惯用法、习语和遣词造句等有关问题进行了详实阐述。同时配以大量取自现代英美书刊原著中的实例，以及各种切合实际的练习题。

《葛传椝英语写作》是葛传椝先生为我国读者撰写的英语写作专著，可作高校教材，亦可作自学课本。除对写作基本知识、写作技巧和文体修辞分章介绍之外，还特别对惯用法、习语和遣词造句等有关问题进行了详实阐述。同时配以大量取自现代英美书刊原著中的实例，以及各种切合实际的练习题。《葛传椝英语写作》用简明地道的英文写成，是英语写作教材之经典。

Chapter I INTRODUCTION

 1.Composition and Compositions

 2.Purpose of This Book

 3.Your Advantage

 4.Your Special Difficulties

 5.Rhetoric

Chapter II MECHANICS OF COMPOSITION

 6.Materials

 7.One Side or Two Sides？

 8.Margins

 9.Spacing

 10.Titles

 11.Paging

 12.Folding

 13.Endorsing

 14.Spelling

 15.Syllabication

 16.Underlining

 17.Italics

 18.Omissions, Corrections, and Insertions

 19.A Warning

Chapter III LEARNING TO WRITE

 20.Something to Say

 21.How to Say It

 22.A Consolation

 23.Others May Have Said It before You

 24.What to Read

 25.How to Read

 26.Some Dictionaries Recommended

 27.Self-cultivation

 28.Writing from Memory

 29.Imitation, Conscious and Unconscious

 30.Reading Dictionaries

 31.Expressing Another Person’s Thoughts

 32.Paraphrasing Sentences

 33.Suggestions for Paraphrasing

 34.Paraphrasing Paragraphs

 35.Paraphrasing Verse

 36.Condensing

 37.Various Degrees of Condensation

 38.Suggestions for Condensing

 39.Using Materia1 in Han

 40.Expressing Your Own Thoughts

 41.Keeping a Diary

 42.Choosing a Subject

 43.Choosing a Title

 44.Taking Notes

 45.Making an Outline

 46.Note-taking and Outline-making in the Head

 47.Making Outlines of What You Read

 48.Expanding an Outline

 49.Practice in Composition

Chapter IV WRITING CORRECTLY

 50.What is Correct English？

 51.Usage

 52.Present-day Usage

 53.Neologisms

 54.English and American Usage

 55.Good Usage

 56.Expressions Outside of Good Usage

 57.Colloquialisms Etc in Written English

 58.You are Quite Safe

 59.How You Violate Usage

Chapter V WRITING CORRECTLY （Continued）

 60.Grammar

 61.Idiom

 62.Grammar and Idiom

 63.About the Study of Grammar

 64.About the Study of Idiom

 65.Some Books Recommended

 66.Make Your Own Dictionary of Usage

 67.Exercises in Grammar

 68.Proper Nouns Used as Common Nouns

 69.Nouns Used as Adjectives

 70.Singulars and Plurals

 71.Nouns Singular Only

 72.Nouns Plural Usually or Plural Only

 73.Nouns Plural in a Special Usage

 74.Nouns of Multitude

 75.Abstract Nouns in Plural

 76.Material Nouns in Plural

 77.Nouns Ending in “-ics”

 78.Some Miscellaneous Nouns

 79.Numerals in Plural

 80.Number in Nouns Used as Adjectives

 81.Number and Articles

 82.Plural Subject with Singular Verb

 83.Some Knotty Points of Number

 84.Gender and Sex

 85.Male or Female Beings Considered Neuter

 86.Animals Considered Masculine or Feminine Without Reference to Sex

 87.Sexless Things Considered Masculine or Feminine

 88.Masculine and Feminine Nouns Used as Nouns of Common Gender

 89.Feminine Nouns Ending in “-ess”

 90.Nouns Ending in “-man”

 91.Words of Common Gender Made Masculine or Feminine

 92.Gender and Number

 93.Possessive Case and Of-phrase

 94.Subjective and Objective Meanings

 95.Possessive Plurals

 96.Noun Phrases and Possessive Case

 97.“’S” Repeated and “Of” Repeated

 98.Possessive Case and Lifeless Things

 99.Idiomatic Uses of Possessive Case

 100.Noun Omitted after Possessive

 101.“Of” before Possessive

 102.One Noun in Two Cases

 103.Pronoun and its Antecedent

 104.Lack of a Common-gender Third-person-singular Pronoun

 105.A Question of Person

 106.Case in Pronouns

 107.Objective Used as Predicate Nominative

 108.Interrogative “Who” Used as Objective

 109.Relative “Whom” Used as Nominative

 110.“Whom” Used after “Than”

 111.Nominative or Objective after “But”？

 112.A Curious Case of Agreement

 113.National, Editorial, and Generic Uses of “We”

 114.Generic Use of “You” and “Your”

 115.Indefinite Use of “They”

 116.Generic Use of “One” and “One’s”

 117.Idiomatic Uses of “It”

 118.Two Distinct Constructions of “It ...That”

 119.Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses

 120.The Relative Pronouns “Who”, “Which”, and “That”

 121.Three Points of Choice between “Who（m）” and “Which”

 122.Two Relative Clauses Linked by “And” or “But”

 123.Omission of Relative Pronouns

 124.“Which” without Definite Antecedent

 125.“As” as Relative Pronoun

 126.“Who” as Indefinite Relative Pronoun

 127.“What” Preceding Statement

 128.“One Another” and “Each Other”

 129.Adjectives Used as Nouns

 130.Exact Senses of Adjectives

 131.A Curious Point about Comparatives

 132.Two Curious Uses of Superlatives

 133.“A Most” Followed by Adjective

 134.“Worth” Taking an Object

 135.“The Matter”

 136.“Nothing Much”

 137.Articles

 138.“A” and Abstract Nouns

 139.Some Words Often Mistaken for Abstract Nouns

 140.Generic Use of Articles

 141.Position of “A” （or “An”）

 142.“The” Giving Common Noun Abstract Sense

 143.Articles and Proper Nouns

 144.Omission of Articles

 145.Repetition of Articles

 143.Final Remarks on Articles

 147.Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

 148.Absolute Use of Transitive Verbs

 149.Copulative Verbs

 150.Factitive Verbs

 151.Verbs Taking Double Object

 152.Tense and Time

 153.Present Tense Referring to Future

 154.Present Tense Referring to Past

 155.Past Tense Referring to Future

 156.Present Perfect Tense vs Past Tense

 157.Past Perfect Tense

 158.Perfect Tense vs Factitive “Have” with Past Participle as Complement

 159.Continuous Tenses

 160.“Always” with Continuous Tenses

 161.“Be” in Continuous Tenses

 162.“Used” Followed by Infinitive

 163.“Be” Followed by Infinitive

 164.“Have” Followed by Infinitive

 165.Infinitive without “to”

 166.Split Infinitives

 167.“To” Standing for Infinitive

 168.“To” Followed by Gerund

 169.Infinitive or Gerund？

 170.“Enough” Qualified by Infinitive

 171.“Too” Qualified by Infinitive

 172.Active and Passive Infinitives

 173.Active and Passive Gerunds

 174.Gerunds Used as Adjectives

 175.Gerund and Possessive

 176.Fused Participles

 177.Present Participle Separated from Subject by Predicate Verb

 178.Unattached Participles

 179.Intransitive Past Participles Used as Adjectives

 180.“Shall” and “Will”, “Should” and “Would”

 181.Subjunctive Mood

 182.Sequence of Tenses

 183.“The” as Adverb

 184.Double Adverbial “The”

 185.Quasi-adverbs

 186.Prepositions

 187.Idiomatic Uses of Prepositions

 188.Prepositions before Particular Nouns

 189.Prepositions after Particular Words

 190.Omission of Prepositions

 191.Prepositions Governing Words Other than Nouns and Pronouns

 192.That-clause in Apposition to Nouns

 193.That-clause Qualifying Adjectives and Past Participles

 194.That-clause Used after Verbs

 195.That-clause Qualifying “So” and “Such”

 196.Idiomatic Uses of “That”

 197.Omission of “That”

 198.“And” Expressing Result

 199.“Or” Meaning Otherwise

 200.Idiomatic Uses of “If”

 201.“Than” with Ellipsis

 202.“When” as Relative Conjunction

 203.“As Well As”

 204.“Though ...Yet ...”

 205.Indirect Questions

 206.Negative Inversion

Chapter VI WRITING WELL

 207.What is Good Writing？

 208.Superstitions

 209.Diction and Sentence Structure

 210.The Exact word

 211.Specific and General Words

 212.Plain and Pretentious Words

 213.Idiomatic Phrases and Idiomatic Uses of Plain Words

 214.“Fine Writing”

 215.Hackneyed Phrases

 216.Words Used Too Often

 217.Economy of Words

 218.Periodic and Loose Sentences

 219.Qualities of a Good Sentence

 220.Unity

 221.Coherence

 222.Emphasis

 223.Euphony

Chapter VII PARAGRAPHS

 224.What is a Paragraph？

 225.Length of Paragraphs

 226.Paragraphs and Outline

 227.Topic Sentence

 228.Paragraph Development

 229.Qualities of a Good Paragraph

 230.Transition between Paragraphs

Chapter VIII FORMS OF COMPOSITION

 231.Narrations, Description, Exposition and Argument

 232.Point of View in Narration

 233.What Tense to Use？

 234.“Story Style” and “News Style”

 235.Plain Account of Events

 236.Artistic, Practical, and Scientific Description

 237.Avoid “Fine Writing”

 238.What is Beautiful Language？

 239.Examples of Artistic Description

 240.Practical Description

 241.Exposition is Explanation

 242.Definition

 243.What to Avoid in Exposition

 244.Examples of Exposition

 245.Argument and Exposition

 246.Question and Answer

 247.What to Avoid in Argument

 248.Formal and Informal Argument