up of ten articles is
followed by mixed exercises; these may be used for review, or imposed in
the margin of a theme as a penalty for flagrant or repeated error. Thus
friendly counsel is backed by discipline, and the instructor has the
means of compelling the student to make rapid progress toward good
English.

Although a handbook of this nature is in some ways arbitrary, the
arbitrariness is always in the interest of simplicity. The book does
have simplicity, permits instant reference, and provides an adequate
drill which may be assigned at the stroke of a pen.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

COMPLETENESS OF THOUGHT

1. Fragments wrongly used as sentences
2. Incomplete constructions
3. Necessary words omitted
4. Comparisons not logically completed
5. Cause and reason
6. _Is when_ and _is where_ clauses
7. Undeveloped thought
8. Transitions
9. EXERCISE
A. Incomplete sentences
B. Incomplete constructions
C. Incomplete logic
D. Undeveloped thought and transitions

UNITY OF THOUGHT

10. Unrelated ideas in one sentence
11. Excessive detail
12. Stringy sentences to be broken up
13. Choppy sentences to be combined
14. Excessive coordination
15. Faulty subordination of the main thought
16. Subordination thwarted by _and_
17. The _and which_ construction
18. The comma splice
19. EXERCISE
A. The comma splice
B. One thought in a sentence
C. Excessive coordination
D. Upside-down subordination

CLEARNESS OF THOUGHT

REFERENCE
20. Divided reference
21. Weak reference
22. Broad reference
23. Dangling participle or gerund

COHERENCE
24. General incoherence
25. Logical sequence
26. Squinting modifier
27. Misplaced word
28. Split construction
29. EXERCISE
A. Reference of pronouns
B. Dangling modifiers
C. Coherence

PARALLEL STRUCTURE
30. Parallel structure for parallel thoughts
31. Correlatives

CONSISTENCY
32. Shift in subject or voice
33. Shift in number, person, or tense
34. Mixed constructions
35. Mixed imagery

USE OF CONNECTIVES
36. The exact connective
37. Repetition of co