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| Preface | |
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| Simple Sentences | |
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| Clarity | |
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| Empty Phrases | |
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| Needed Words | |
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| Lively Verbs | |
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| Specific Nouns | |
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| Sexist Language | |
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| Confusing Shifts | |
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| Mixed Constructions | |
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| Illogical Connections | |
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| Misplaced or Dangling Modifiers | |
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| Split Infinitives | |
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| Variety (A Tiny Style Handbook) | |
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| Parallelism | |
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| Sentence Beginnings | |
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| Combining Choppy Sentences | |
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| Varying Sentence Structure | |
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| Extending Sentences | |
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| Passive versus Active Voice | |
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| Correctness | |
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| Subject-Verb Agreement | |
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| Special Problems with Verbs | |
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| Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | |
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| Adverbs and Adjectives | |
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| Sentence Boundary Errors | |
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| Special Problems of English as a Second Language | |
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| Articles | |
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| Helping and Main Verbs | |
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| Omitted Subjects, Expletives, or Verbs | |
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| Idioms | |
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| Repeated Subjects or Objects | |
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| A Few Words About Words | |
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| How Words Make Meaning | |
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| How Usage Changes Meaning | |
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| Social Idiom | |
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| Word Pairs | |
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| Changes in Meaning, Form, or Function | |
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| Inappropriate Tones | |
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| Glossary of Usage | |
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| Punctuation Lite | |
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| Don't Guess! Look It Up! | |
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| Commas | |
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| Commas Are Required | |
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| Following the first independent clause (one which can stand by itself) in a compound sentence | |
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| Following introductory dependent clauses, those which define other clauses and phrases | |
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| Separating items in a series | |
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| Separating coordinate adjectives | |
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| With nonrestrictive phrases and clauses | |
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| With sentence interrupters | |
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| With personal titles, addresses, and dates | |
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| Within direct address, short answers to questions, tag questions, quotations | |
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| For certain special F/X | |
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| Commas Are Not Allowed | |
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| Separating compound elements that are not independent clauses | |
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| Between subjects and verbs or between verbs and objects | |
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| Before or after a series | |
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| Separating cumulative adjectives, adverbs, and adjectives, or an adjective and the noun it modifies | |
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| After a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, or, nor, yet, so) | |
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| Before an indirect quotation | |
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| After such as or like | |
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| With a question mark or an exclamation point | |
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| Before a parenthesis | |
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| Semicolons | |
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| Semicolons Are Required | |
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| Connecting closely related independent clauses | |
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| With a conjunctive adverb (however, moreover, consequently) or other transitional phrase connecting independent clauses | |
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| Separating items in a series with internal punctuation | |
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| Semicolons Are Not Allowed | |
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| After a dependent clause | |
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| After an introductory phrase | |
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| Between independent clauses joined with a coordinating conjunction | |
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| Before a list | |
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| Colons | |
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| Colons Are Required | |
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| Introducing lists | |
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| Introducing appositives | |
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| Introducing quotations and formal statements | |
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| Between closely related independent clauses | |
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| With salutations of formal letters, between title and subtitle, to separate city from publisher and date in bibliographic entries, to indicate hours and minutes, and to show proportions | |
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| Colons Are Not Allowed | |
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| Between a verb and its object or complement | |
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| Between a preposition and its object | |
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| After such as | |
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| Apostrophes | |
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| Apostrophes Are Required | |
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| With contractions | |
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| With possessives | |
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| Plurals of letters, numbers, and words used as words | |
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| Apostrophes Are Not Allowed | |
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| With possessive pronouns (his, hers, its, ours, yours, theirs, whose) | |
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| With words that are not possessive | |
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| Quotation Marks | |
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| Quotation Marks Are Required | |
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| To set off any words, spoken or written, taken directly from another | |
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| With titles of short works and parts of long works | |
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| With words referred to as words in certain contexts | |
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| When Quotation Marks Are Used with Other Punctuation Marks | |
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| With periods and commas at the ends of word groups | |
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| With colons and semicolons at the ends of word groups | |
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| With question marks and exclamation points | |
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| As single quotation marks for quotations within quotations | |
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| For an informal quotation within a sentence | |
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| Quotation Marks Are Not Allowed | |
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| Around familiar expressions or humorous comments | |
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| Around indirect quotations | |
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| Other Punctuation | |
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| Dashes | |
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| Parentheses | |
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| Brackets | |
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| Ellipses | |
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| Slashes | |
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| Periods, Question Marks, and Exclamation Points | |
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| Proofreading Marks | |
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| Details, Details | |
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| The Customs of Print | |
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| Sensible Spelling | |
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| Spelling Rules | |
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| If Stephen King Wrote a Spelling Test (Frequently Misspelled Words) | |
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| Miscellaneous Mechanics | |
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| Capitalization | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Italics and Underlining | |
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| Hyphens | |
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| Your Documentation, Please | |
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| MLA | |
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| In-Text Citation | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| MLA Manuscript Format | |
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| APA | |
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| APA In-Text Citation | |
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| References | |
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| APA Manuscript Format | |
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| Chicago | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Chicago Manuscript Format | |
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| Research | |
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| Supporting a Thesis | |
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| Organizing Ideas and Sources | |
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| Supporting Each Point | |
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| Sample Paper MLA | |
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| Sample Paper APA | |
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| Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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| General Advice on Manuscript Format | |
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| Page Layout | |
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| A Little Grammar (Never Hurt Anyone) | |
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| A Little Grammar Test | |
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| Parts of Speech | |
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| Nouns | |
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| Pronouns | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Conjunctions | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Interjections | |
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| Parts of a Sentence | |
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| Subjects | |
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| Verbs | |
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| Complements | |
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| Direct Objects | |
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| Indirect Objects | |
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| Object Complements | |
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| Intransitive Verbs | |
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| Clauses | |
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| Phrases | |
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| Further Reference | |
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| A Little Usage Test | |
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| Answers to the Little Usage Test | |
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| Another Little Grammar Test | |
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| Answers to the Little Grammar Tests | |
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| Glossary of Grammatical Terms | |
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| Parts of Speech | |
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| Parts of a Sentence | |
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| Online References | |
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| Grading Symbols | |
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| Index | |