Index subjunctive mood, 73 subordinate clauses.
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subjunctive mood, 73
subordinate clauses See dependent
(subordi-nate) clauses
subordinate conjunctions, 40-41
subordination, 182-185
coordination, compared, 185
substandard usage, 8
suffixes, 237-241
superlative degree, adjectives and adverbs,
102-105
Tale of Two Cities, A, 259
templates, business letters, 328
tense, verbs, 60-71
future, 68
past, 67-68
time, 67
thank you letters, composing, 338-339
that, 97
thesauruses, 201-202
they, 95
Thompson, Dorothy, 252
Thousand and One Nights, A, 272
Thurber, James, 133, 252
time, verb tenses, 67
tone, 300-302
transitions, 255-256 See also conjunctive
adverbs
transitive verbs, 36
Trillin, Calvin, 85
Twain, Mark, 257
slang terms, 8 substandard, 8 usage dictionaries, 198 usage labels, dictionaries, 196
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unabridged dictionaries, 198
unclear antecedents, avoiding, 95-Ç
usage, 7-9
elements, 9
formal, 8
informal, 8
nonstandard English, 8-9
verbal phrases, 140, 145-146 gerund,147-148
infinitive, 148-149 participle, 146-147 verbosity, avoiding, 290-294 verbs, 36-39, 59-60
action, 36, 283 classes, 61-64 conjugation, 65 gerunds, 147-148 helping, 37 infinitives, 148-149 information conveyed, 60 intransitive, 65
irregular, 62-65 linking, 37, 82 adjectives, 106-107 moods, 72
number, 72 person, 72 plural, 113-114, 120-122 principal parts, 61 regular, 62 simple form, 61 singular, 112-113 subjects, agreement, 19 tense, 60-71
future, 68 past, 67-68 time, 67 transitive, 36 verbals, 140, 145-146 voice, 73-75
vernacular, 302 voice, 73-75 Voltaire, 251
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W - X - Y - Z subjects, focusing on, 279-280
types, 271
, , ->., verbosity, avoiding, 290-294
watchdog audiences, 264 , J1 b' _ „
Webster, Noah, 197 l Ï order T s ^
Webster s Dictionary of Synonyms, 202 ' Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 197
Webster's New World Dictionary of the
American Language, 196
well and good, compared, 106
Weston, Arthur H., 85
which, 97
White, E B., 10, 252
who and whom, compared, 85-87
word origin dictionaries, 198
words in apposition, 210
writers and grammarians, compared, 7
writing
argumentation, 272-273
bias-free language, 316-318
business letters, 328
clarity, 276
description, 273
details, adding, 280-282
doublespeak, avoiding, 318
exposition, 271
inventories, 20-23
longhand, 193-194
narration, 272
padding, 282
pronouns, 283
punctuation, importance of, 284-286
redundant writing, avoiding, 287-290
sexist language, avoiding, 312-315
standards, 11
style, 251-253
audience, 263-269
clarity, 257-258
coherence, 255-257
consistency, 253-255
developing, 258-260
importance of, 284-286
myths, 261-262