Prentice-Hall Handbook for Writers

adjective adverb Airship American antecedent apostrophe avoided AWKWARD beginning capitalized co-ordinating COLLOQUIAL comma Commander Rosendahl Company conjunction correct crash deadwood Dictionary elliptical clause example EXERCISE expression fish Flying Saucers following sentences footnote formal English FORMAL INFORMAL formal usage gerund give grammatical grunion H. L. MENCKEN high school Hindenburg hyphen ideas ILLOGICAL Index indicate italicized italics jail JAMES THURBER language letter logical look main clause meaning Miss Sheldon modern modifies nonrestrictive noun object paragraph participle person phrases plural practice preposition pronoun pronunciation punctuation quotation marks reader reading reference Revise the following Rosendahl S. J. PERELMAN Section sentence elements separate singular slang sometimes special permission SPECIMEN PAPER speech spelling statement student subordinate clause suffix T. S. Eliot tence Tense thing thought tion topic sentence usually verb vocabulary Vulgate words writing York