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D. American and British Systems
E. Ellipses
RE- PAIRS
REDUNDANCY
REMOTE RELATIVES
A. Generally
B. The Exceptional which
RETRONYMS
RUN-ON SENTENCES
SENTENCE ADVERBS
SENTENCE ENDS
SENTENCE LENGTH
SESQUIPEDALITY
SET PHRASES
SEXISM
A. Generally
B. The Pronoun Problem
C. Words with man- and -man
D. Differentiated Feminine Forms
E. Equivalences
F. Statute of Limitations
G. Bibliography
SKUNKED TERMS
SLANG
SLIPSHOD EXTENSION
SOUND OF PROSE
A. Undue Alliteration or Rhyme
B. Awkward Repetition
SPELLING
A. Common Misspellings
B. Doubling of Final Consonants in
Inflected Forms
C. Words with -ie- or -ei-
D. Compounds
SPLIT INFINITIVES
A. Generally
B. Splits to Be Avoided
C. Justified Splits
D. Awkwardness Caused by
Avoiding Splits
E. Ambiguities
STANDARD ENGLISH
SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT
A. General Rule
B. False Attraction to Noun
Intervening Between Subject
and Verb
C. False Attraction to Predicate
Noun
D. Compound Subjects Joined
Conjunctively
E. Misleading Connectives
F. Plural Units Denoting Amounts
G. One and one (is) (are)
H. Thing after thing (is) (are)
I. More than one is; more than
one are
J. Plural Subject Intended to
Denote Area or Statistic
K. One in five; one of every five
L. Decades
M. An Unusual Plural
N. Nouns of Multitude
O. A number of people (is) (are)
P. One of those who (is) (are)
Q. Each as Subject
R. What as Subject
S. Inversion
T. Alternatives
SUBJECT-VERB SEPARATION
SUBJUNCTIVES
SUPERSTITIONS
A. Never End a Sentence with a
Preposition
B. Never Split an Infinitive
C. Never Split a Verb Phrase
D. Never Begin a Sentence with
And or But
E. Never Write a One-Sentence
Paragraph
F. Never Begin a Sentence with
Because
G. Never Use since to Mean
because
H. Never Use between with More
than Two Objects
I. Never Use the First-Person
Pronouns I and me
J. Never Use Contractions
K. Never Use you in Referring to
Your Reader
SWAPPING HORSES
SYNESIS
TENSES
A. Generally
B. Sequence of
C. Threatened Obsolescence of
Perfect Tenses
TITULAR TOMFOOLERY
TMESIS
UNDERSTOOD WORDS
VERBAL AWARENESS
VOGUE WORDS
VOWEL CLUSTERS
WEASEL WORDS
WELLERISMS
-WISE
WOOLLINESS
WORD PATRONAGE
WORD-SWAPPING
-WORTHY
ZEUGMA
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