An Index to English: A Handbook of Current Usage and StyleScott, Foresman, 1939 - 680 pages |
Contents
Classified Guide to Major Articles | 7 |
GENERAL ARTICLES Colon | 13 |
GOOD ENGLISH | 16 |
GENERAL Articles LEVELS OF USAGE | 18 |
YOUR WRITING | 23 |
Classified Guide | 26 |
CRAFTSMANSHIP IN WRITING | 29 |
An Index to English | 31 |
SPECIAL POINTS Homonyms | 435 |
Outlines and outlining 3 Mechanics | 436 |
Topic sentences 3 Details in narrative | 447 |
Dictionaries Counter words | 502 |
GENERAL ARTICLES GRAMMATICAL CLASSIFICATION | 560 |
able ible Hyphen | 572 |
Sentence movement Conjunctive adverbs | 593 |
FIGURES OF SPEECH | 611 |
Punctuation Quotation marks | 89 |
INDIVIDUAL MARKS Hyphen | 136 |
Note taking Letters | 184 |
GENERAL ARTICLES Contrast and comparison | 191 |
Between subjects and verbs Conversation | 223 |
Grammar Formal English | 229 |
Routine conventional uses Conjunctive adverbs 4 | 272 |
Nouns Subjunctives | 282 |
Semicolon | 313 |
SPELLING | 322 |
Bad grammar Informal English | 344 |
Standard English | 365 |
Adjectives types and forms Subject and verb | 378 |
GENERAL ARTICLES TYPES OF WORDS | 383 |
Plan | 387 |
Qrigin of words Current archaic obsolete English | 409 |
Case nominatives | 420 |
Parallel constructions Absolute constructions | 623 |
Figurative and literal use of words TYPES OF CONSTRUCTIONS | 638 |
Exercises | 641 |
LANGUAGE STUDY | 643 |
THE WHOLE COMPOSITION | 645 |
PARAGRAPHS | 648 |
SENTENCES | 650 |
WORDS | 654 |
QUALITIES OF STYLE | 656 |
GRAMMAR | 657 |
PUNCTUATION | 662 |
SPELLING | 664 |
A SET OF THEMES | 665 |
MECHANICS | 672 |
Writers from Whose Works Whole Paragraphs Are Quoted | 677 |
Abbreviations Proofreading | |
Copyright | |
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An Index to English: A Handbook of Current Usage and Style Porter Gale Perrin No preview available - 1939 |
An Index to English: A Handbook of Current Usage and Style Porter Gale Perrin No preview available - 1939 |