mple of a man who
has succeeded.

12. The fortunes of our country are now standing at the
cannon's mouth, and one vote may stem the tide of disaster.

13. There was little scenery on an Elizabethan stage. While the
parts intended for women were performed by men.

14. The cave which Tom Sawyer was lost in really existed. It
was the cave just outside Hannibal, Missouri, it was near the
Mississippi. Here was the place where Mark Twain was a boy.

15. Yes, and the buildings werent what they are now, do you
remember how we used to go to the old log meeting house, that
was up on stilts, and the pigs crawled under the floor and
raised such a disturbance that the preacher had to stop and
have the pigs chased out before he could continue the sermon?

INDEX

_The numbers refer to articles._

Abbreviations, 83, 90c

Absolute expressions
Defined, 58
Punctuation of, 91e

_Accept_ and _except_, 67

_Ad_, 68

Addresses, 87b, 87e

Adjectives
Classes of, 58
Comparison of, 58
Distinguished from adverbs, 56
In a series, 91f, 91j2

Adverbs,
Classes of, 58
Comparison of, 58
Distinguished from adjectives, 56

_Affect_ and _effect_, 67

_Aggravate_, 68

Agreement
Of verbs, 52
Of pronouns, 51, 50i

_Ain't_, 68

_All right_, 68

_Almost_, Position of, 27

_Allusion and illusion_, 67

_Already_ and _all ready_, 67

_And_ before a subordinate phrase or clause, 16, 17

_And_ used to excess, 14

_And which_ construction, 17

Antecedent
Defined, 58
Faulty reference to, 20-23

_Anybody_, Number of, 51a

Apostrophe
In contractions, 97
With possessive, 97, 50f

Application for a position, 87g

Articles, Omission of, 3

_As_, Incorrect use of, 50a, 68

Aspect of the verb, 58

Auxiliary
Defined, 58
Use of, 55e

_Awful_, Abuse of, 68

Balanced sentence, 45

Balanced structure, 30, 45

Barbarisms, 66

_Because_ clauses, 5

_Because of_ phrases, 5 Note

_Be_, Nominative with, 50c

_Both ... and_, 31

Brackets, 95e

Brevity for emphasis, 41, 60

Business letters, 87c

_Bust_ or _busted_, 68

_But_ u