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This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Though they have been largely rewritten. I have kept a good deal of their original lecture-form, as being ( 1 hope) rather less formal and less dogmatiC. For to dogmatism, those who write on language seem, for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my views strongly, I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion. In addition. I have included a good many specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on style without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology. without abundant illustrations. Many of these passages are in French. That may be Gallomania on my part: and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some ability to read French prose does seem to me most desirable for anyone who would write-well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days, less than ever can we afford to be insular.

In the author's opinion, a book on style ____________

A. can do with few examples
B. need not have any examples
C. is a book on act
D. will be ineffectual with insufficient examples  

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Correct Answer: D