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A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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Subject Index |
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Abbreviations
E-mail 261, 262,
forming plurals 240
| Absolute construction,
defined 264,
participles and 24,
use of 1
| Absolute terms1–2
| Active voice,
avoiding wordiness with 64,
defined 264,
use of 46–47, 57, 58–59
| Adjectives,
adverbial forms 3,
comparison of 2–3,
compounds, forming 254–256,
defined 264,
participles as 25
| Adverbs,
any as an 6,
comparison of, 3–4,
compounds, forming 255,
defined 264,
double negative and 15,
position of 4,
scarcely as negative 32,
split infinitives and 34–35
| Affixes,
defined 264,
meanings of, alphabetical listing 244–253,
spelling changes, rules for 242–243
| Agreement,
defined 264,
either … or and 16,
pronouns 27–28,
subject/verb 35–37
| Antecedent, defined,
264
| Apostrophes, possessive constructions,
25–27
| Appositive, defined,
264
| Articles,
defined 264,
indefinite 66,
instead of personal pronouns 178
| Aspect, defined,
264
| Assimilation,
214
| Attributive, defined,
264
| Auxiliary verbs,
dare as 13,
defined 265,
must as 20,
need as 20,
ought as 23,
use of 8
| Base form, defined
265
| Bulletin boards, E-mail,
260
| Calculations, use in writing
See Scientific writing
| Capitalization,
of black 190,
compounds, forming 255
| Case, defined,
265
| Chat rooms, E-mail,
260
| Clauses,
defined 265,
elliptical 12, 267,
if clauses, use of 38,
plus as connector 25,
restrictive/nonrestrictive 39, 50,
scarcely with 32,
should in conditional 33,
so/so that in 34,
subject of 47–48,
which referring to 49
| Collective nouns,
11, 265
| Color, compound adjectives,
257
| Commas, use with,
adverbs 4,
but 10,
whatever 48
| Common nouns, defined,
265
| Comparative degree,
adjectives 3,
adverbs 3–4,
better/best 9,
defined 265
| Comparisons,
absolute terms 1–2,
defined 265
| Complement, defined,
265
| Complex sentence, defined,
265
| Compound-complex sentence, defined,
265
| Compound sentence, defined,
265
| Compound subjects,
personal pronouns 30,
subject/verb agreement 36–37
| Compound verbs, parallelism,
55
| Compound words,
forming 239–240, 253–257,
hyphenated 253
| Concord, defined,
265
| Conditional, defined,
266
| Conjunctions,
beginning sentences with but 9–10,
clauses 25,
defined 266,
pronouns as 34
| Construction, defined,
266
| Coordinating conjunction, defined,
266
| Correlative conjunction, defined,
266
| Count noun, defined,
266
| Dangling participles/modifiers
confused with absolute constructions 1,
defined 266,
use of 11–13, 24
| Decreasing comparisons, adjectives,
3
| Definite article, defined,
266
| Degree, defined,
266
| Demonstrative, defined,
266
| Dependent clause, defined,
266
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