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SOME WORDS OF ITALIAN ORIGIN THAT E
PROBLEM WORDS HEBREW WORDS ADD IM (
COUNTER- DE- DIS- DYS- E- Opposite
PROBLEM WORDS construction (uncommu
P A R T T H R E E Punctuation The w
Basic Sentence Structure In order t
The storekeeper/looked at the money
SENTENCE FRAGl\1ENT PUNCTUATION A s
PUNCTUATION The commas in the follo
In Part II of the exam, answer ques
PUNCTUATION Exception If both the i
PUNCTUATION If no comma appeared af
PUNCTUATION She waited impatiently
PUNCTUATION SETTING OFF PARENTHETIC
PUNCTUATION Exception If a parenthe
PUNCTUATION Zelda apparently has on
For example, compare the following
PUNCTUATION Ensure that the power s
PUNCTUATION The panel consisted of
She wore a pale green dress. [pale
PUNCTUATION Do not set a quoted ele
Semicolon (;) It was her prose that
PUNCTUATION Put semicolons between
PUNCTUATION USE SEMICOLONS IF COMMA
PUNCTUATION this disk; and the revi
PUNCTUATION intentions, but on its
Colon(:) The colon acts as a signal
PUNCTUATION Only one thing would sa
PUNCTUATION reconcile the last sent
PUNCTUATION Aside from the impact o
PUNCTUATION • With regard to capi
DON)T INCLUDE A PERIOD FORA GRAMMAT
PUNCTUATION If you are not obliged
PUNCTUATION GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES Opti
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PUNCTUATION Of course St John River
PUNCTUATION Muriel said, "Once I wa
INDICATING UNCERTAINTY PUNCTUATION
'Are you guilty?' said Winston. PUN
DRAWING ATTENTION TO A POINT PUNCTU
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Consider the following sets of word
PUNCTUATION This sentence is fine i
PUNCTUATION DO NOT USE A HYPHEN WHE
The salesman was fast-talking. The
PUNCTUATION 'So he is, to be sure,'
Slash(/) The slash (also known as t
PUNCTUATION The tent offers suitabl
PUNCTUATION Dalgliesh said: " 'Now
• Working in digressions • Maki
PUNCTUATION if you ask me, but that
PUNCTUATION BETTER: A validity coef
PUNCTUATION • It is permissible t
Dashes Dashes come in several sizes
PUNCTUATION Several of the neighbor
PUNCTUATION but I am sure that you
And when I found the door was shut,
"How was I supposed to-" she sputte
PUNCTUATION the discussions of the
PUNCTUATION a quote. Another use is
PUNCTUATION or editorial comment, i
PUNCTUATION words italics mine, ita
PUNCTUATION By Mrs Hurst and Miss B
"Aces drawn after a deuce are high?
PUNCTUATION 'Oh, but I think,' said
PUNCTUATION it would look as if the
it in quotation marks to alert the
PUNCTUATION 6s and the closing ones
PUNCTUATION Perhaps it would be bet
ORIGINAL QuoTATION: Dear Theo, PUNC
PUNCTUATION 'No, dear. Not Homer, t
PUNCTUATION came to his room, inser
Apostrophe(') The apostrophe often
PUNCTUATION In other cases, the con
the people's choice the alumni's lo
Achilles' heel Euripides' plays Gra
\ PUNCTUATION of the term itself. W
P A R T F 0 U R Grammar The very me
Agreement Between Subject and Verb
Problem Category 1: The Subject, th
GRAMMAR but that would slightly alt
Pat, like the others, was determine
DISTRACTING PREDICATE NOUNS GRAMMAR
the components are included my cous
Headquarters~ waiting for an answer
GRAMMAR A generation ago, no one in
GRAMMAR realize that there is more
GRAMMAR that constitute a multimedi
Achieving Parallel Structure The ve
GRAMMAR The bankruptcy proceedings
GRAMMAR It may be necessary to eith
GRAMMAR action will follow; for exa
GRAMMAR Rebecca seizing life with h
GRAMMAR Dangling modifiers occur wh
GRAMMAR The suspect's condition was
The following sentences contain squ
GRAMMAR that represents the entity
GRAMMAR should be obvious that you
GRAMMAR 4. Old King Cole was a merr
GRAMMAR WHEN DO YOU USE WHO AND WHE
GRAMMAR of spider; hence, it is not
GRAMMAR • Its is the possessive o
GRAMMAR Although the termjree-jorma
AGREEMENT BETWEEN PRONOUN AND ANTEC
GRAMMAR • Collective nouns are th
GRAMMAR person plural. Many readers
Bugbears and Betes Noires: Some Gra
GRAMMAR Virtually every modern styl
GRAMMAR Overdoing this type of sent
P A R Y F I V E Style A sentence or
Ann's Conscience, which up till thi
STYLE • Question marks and exclam
STYLE In some cases, if a person or
STYLE with a consonant sound, prece
ALLCAPSANDSMALLCAPS STYLE If your w
Italics Italic type serves to make
Come the crucial seventh, the Filmm
use, to take them down into the mar
STYLE all. If you are expected to u
STYLE woman with a pretty figure ..
STYLE PASSIVE: The letter received
STYLE car is traded in every jour y
STYLE not unintentionally distract
STYLE BETIER: The following are sug
STYLE Would any writer describe a p
STYLE Many modern readers would not
STYLE The clinician can play an imp
STYLE Obviously you cannot use this
Writing With Finesse BEN . ... But
STYLE ensure randorrmess), and calc
inwardleaning heads, smoking steadi
STYLE behind altering them can be d
STYLE of these types of help while
STYLE First paragraph: Introductory
STYLE all situations. Therefore, re
STYLE tation. Although it is prefer
STYLE the accent phonetically at al
During my first tournament, my moth
STYLE jump out at you: illogical co
sentence with, 262-263; subordinati
ending in y, 43-44, 197, 199-200; o
