Plurals, Spelling of, 77

Poetry to be separated from prose, 41, 80b

Point of view, Shift in, 32

Ponderous language, 60

Possessive
With gerund, 50g
Apostrophe with, 50f, 97
Inanimate objects in, 50h

_Practical and practicable_, 67

Predicate adjective, 58

Predicate noun, 58

Prefixes, 72

Prepositions
Defined, 58
Omitted, 3, 37
Repeated carelessly, 38

Principal parts, 54

_Principal_ and _principle_, 67

Pronouns
Agreement with antecedent, 50i
Case of, 50
Kinds of, 58
Reference of, 20, 21, 22
Wrong use of _myself_, _yourself_, for _I_, _me_, _you_, 68

Pronunciation as a guide to spelling, 71

_Proof_ and _evidence_, 67

_Proposition_, Synonyms for, 62

_Proven_, 68

_Pseudo-_ and _quasi-_, 67

_Quiet_ and _quite_, 67

Question mark, 98

Quotation marks _vs._ italics, 82a
Note 2, 96e

Quotations
Punctuation before, 91h, 92d, 93a
Punctuation of, 96

Reason, Statement of, to be completed by a _that_ clause, 5

Redundance, 60

Reference
Ambiguous, 20
Broad, 22
Divided, 20
Impersonal, 22 Note
Remote, 20
To a clause, 22
To a title, 21 Note
To an unemphatic word, 21
Weak, 21

Reflexive wrongly used for the simple pronoun, 68

Repetition
Of connectives, good, 37;
bad, 38
Of structure, good 47b;
bad 48b
Of words, good, 47a;
bad, 48a

_Respectfully_ and _respectively_, 67

Restrictive and non-restrictive clauses, 91d

_Right smart_, 68

_Rise_ and _raise_, 59D, 67

_Said_, Synonyms for, 62

_Same_, Abuse of, 68

Scrappy sentences, 13

Semicolon, 91b, 92, 95b
After quotation, 96g Note
Not used after question mark, 98b

Sequence of tense, 55

Sequence of thought, 25

Series, Punctuation of, 91f, 91g, 91j 3

_Shall_ and _will_, 53

Shift in number, person, or tense, 33

Shift in subject or voice, 32

_Should_ and _would_, 53

_Sit_ and _set_, 59D, 67

Slang, 66
Quotations with, 96d

_So_, 36 Note, 68

_Some_, Abuse of, 68

_Somewheres_, 68

Sound, 64

Spacing, 80