36. Repeat the subject where its omission would cause obscurity or ambiguity.
37. Repeat a preposition after an intervening conjunction especially if a verb and an object also intervene.
38. Repeat conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, and pronominal adjectives.
39. Repeat verbs after the conjunctions than, as, etc.
40. Repeat the subject, or some other emphatic word, or a summary of what has been said, if the sentence is so long that it is difficult to keep the thread of meaning unbroken.
41. Clearness is increased when the beginning of the sentence prepares the way for the middle and the middle for the end, the whole forming a kind of ascent. This ascent is called "climax."
42. When the thought is expected to ascend but descends, feebleness, and sometimes confusion, is the result. The descent is called "bathos."
43. A new construction should not be introduced unexpectedly.
Common Errors in the Use of Words
The following pages contain a short list of the more common errors in the use of words. Such a list might be extended almost indefinitely. It is only attempted to call attention to such mistakes as are, for various reasons, most liable to occur.