To the Reader 1
Part One：Unnecessary Words 1
Ⅰ.Unnecessary Nouns and Verbs 3
Ⅱ.Unnecessary Modifiers 26
Ⅲ.Redundant Twins 63
Ⅳ.Saying the Same Thing Twice 90
Ⅴ.Repeated References to the Same Thing 114
Ⅵ.Summing it All Up 143
Part Two：Sentence Structure 169
Ⅶ.The Noun Plague 170
Ⅷ.Pronouns and Antecedents 202
Ⅸ.The Placement of Phrases and Clauses 243
Ⅹ.Dangling Modifiers 283
Ⅺ.Parallel Structure 328
Ⅻ.Logical Connectives 376
ⅩⅢ.Summing it All Up 428
Part Three：Supplementary Examples 454
Key to Exercises 526
Selected Bibliography 560