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INDEX

Apparent, 1
Anticipate, 1
All of them, 1
Analyse, 1
Ale, 1
Accord, 1
Accident, 1
Aggravate, 2
Alternation, 2
Alternative, 2
Antiquarian, 2
Abortive, 2
Adopted, 2
Antecedents, 2
Appreciate, 2
At auction, 3
Accompanied, by 3
Anniversary, 3
Affable, 3
Alike, 3
Afraid, 3
Admit, 3
Allude, 3
Around, 3
Avoided, 4
All over, 4
Above, 4
At best, at most, at least, 4
Auxiliary verbs alone, 7
Advisable, 8
Anxiety of mind, 10
Ascend up, 13
Among the others, the rest, 22
Apposition, 34
Any, 34
Auxiliary verb omitted, 34
Adverb with compound auxiliary verb, 34
Although, with the subjunctive mood, 36
As follows, 37
Awkward constructions, 38, 48
Adjective for adverb, 39
Article with appositive nouns, 40
Article with titles, names, 40
Article (definite), repetition of, 40, 41
Article (indefinite) after no greater, 42
Adjectives and adverbs after intransitive verbs, 46
Antecedent to relative pronoun, repeated, 52
Advantage, 55
Also, 55
Ability, 56
Answer, 56
Amid, amidst, 56
Among, 56
Abandon, 56
Assist, 56
Aid, 56
Anger, 57
Accurate, 57
Authentic, 57
Admittance, 57
Admission, 57
Allow, 57
Appear, 58
Aware, 59
Accidental, 60
Acknowledge, 61
Address, 63
And so forth, 64
Almost, 70
Announce, 72
Alleviate, 74
Abjure, 74
Approve, 80
Agriculturist, 80
Aside, 80
Alone, 80
Arise, 80
Advance, 80
Acquaintanceship, 80
A day or two, a man or two, 84
Authoress, 84
Anyhow, 84
Anyway, 84
Accountable, 85
Answerable, 85
Antagonize, 85
Aborigene, 85
Both of them, 1
Both, 4
Balance, 4
Benefited, 4
Beat, 4
Bound, 4
By, 5
By the bye, 5
By-law, 5
Banister, 5
Bad cold, bad wound, 5
Badly, 5
Beg, 5
Between, 5
Bad orthography, orthoepy, caligraphy, 15
Bona fide, 28
Been to, 29
Brevity, 50
Benefit, 55
Bountiful, 58
Bravery, 58
Beneficent, beneficence, 58
Benevolent, benevolence, 58
Brevity, brief, 59
Blameless, 65
But, 65
Begin, 80
Become, 80
Believe, 80
Body, 80
Buy, 80
Backward, 81
Bit, a; not a bit, 85
Brackets, use of, 90, 91
Collect, 6
Commence, 6
Condone, 6
Climax, 6
Constantly, 6
Celebrity, 6
Consequence, 6
Capricious, 6
Claim, 6
Call upon, 6
Catch, 6
Consider, 7
Curious, 7
Caption, 7
Citizen, 7
Circumstance, 7
Couple, 7
Calibre, 7
Contention, 7
Contradistinction, 8
Can help, 14
Caligraphy, 15
Came near, 20
Collective nouns, 35
Conditional clause, place of, 48
Connective sentence, 54
Capacity, 56
Courage, 58
Concise, conciseness, 59
Continuous, 59, 72
Continual, 59, 72
Character, 59
Conscious, 59
Crime, 59
Courteous, 60
Catalogue, 60
Casual, 60
Compel, compulsion, 60
Coerce, coercion, 60
Confess, 61
Conjecture, 61
Con-, co-, 61
Complete, 61
Custom, 61
Cost, costly, 64
Consequence, 64
Concealed, 66
Cheap, 68
Completely, 70
Converse, 73
Contented, 75
Coffin, 80
Cannot but, 80
Come into collision, 81
Correct, 81
Converser, conversationist, 81
Controverter, controversionist, 81
Church, 81
Contend against, 81
Corpulent, 81
Confirmed invalid, 85
Cablegram, 85
Comma, use of, 88, 89
Colon, use of, 90
Cardinal numbers, plurals of, 91
Dilemma, 7
Distinction, 8
Desirable, 8
Demean, 8
Description, 8
Detect, 8
Dangerous, 8
Deprecate, 8
Denuded, 8
Die with, 8
Directly, 9
Donate, 9
Dirt road, 9
Divine, 9
Depreciate, 9
Differ with, 9
Distance, 9
Differentiate, 9
Disdain, 27
Dare, 36
Do, 37
Double meanings, words with, 47
Doubtful parts of speech, 47
Different expressions for same thing, 53, 54
Descriptive writing, 54
Desert, 56
Discriminate, 62
Distinguish, 62
Despotism, 62
Determine, 62
Directed, 62
Deduction, 62
Direct, 63
Drive, 63
Diligent, diligence, 67
Delusion, 67
Dumb, 70
Due, 71
Deadly, 81
Dwell, 81
Diverse, 83
Down East, down South, 85
Desirability, 85
Direful, 85
Defalcate, defalcation, 85
Desiderate, 85
Deceased, 85
Dash, use of, 91
Essay, 6
Expect, 9
Ever so many, 10
Equally as well as, 10
Equanimity of mind, 10
Every, 10
Executed, 10
Enact, 10
Endorse, 10
Embrace, 10
Empty, 10
Experiment, try an, 11
Every hand, 11
Either, 11
Else, 11
Exemplary, 11
Experience, 11
Excessively, 11
Effluviums, effluviae, 11
Each, 23
Every, 23
Emphatic words, place of, 49
Emphasis, 49
Exact, 57
Evidence, 63
Epidemic, 63
Endemic, 63
Expense, expensive, 64
Effect, 64
Eternal, 64
Everlasting, 64
Etc., 64
Error, 70
Entirely, 70
Enough, 76
Entire, 78
Earth, 79
Exponental, 81
Earthen, 81
Enlarge on, upon, 81
Every once in a while, 85
Electropathy, 85
Effectuate, 85
Enjoy oneself, 85
Eventuate, 85
Environment, 86
Emasculate, 86
Few, a few, 11
Fault, at; in, 12
Faithfully promise, 12
Future, 12
Fetch, 12
Forbid, 12, 81
Ful [adjectives ending in], 12
Female, 13
Fall down, 13
Fix, 13
Fly, 13
Foreign adjectives, 13
First person preferred to third, 47
Force in construction, 48, 49, 50
Figures of speech, 53
Forsake, 56
Fortuitous, 60
Finished, 61
Ferment, 64
Foment, 64
Faultless, 65
Falsehood, 65
Falsity, 65
Further, 65
Farther, 65
Fleeting, 77
Foregoing, 81
Factory, 81
Forward, 81
Good bye, 5
Graphic, 13
Going to, 13
Grow, 13
Grow small, 13
Get to, 13
Gubernatorial, 13
Gratuitous, 13
Gerundial infinitive, 32
Gerundial noun, 42
Genuine, 57
Guided, 62
Goodness, 65
Globe, 79
Golden, 81
Graceful, 81
Go ahead, 86
Got, 86
Humanitarian, 14
Hardly, 14
Help-meet, 14
High calibre, 14
Higher stage of perfection, 15
Highest, 17
Hereabouts, 28
Habit, 61
However, 65
Hidden, 66
Haste, 66
Hurry, 66
Hindrance, 66
Hardly, 70
Humor, 79
Heavy, 81
Hebrew, 81
House, 81
Hydropathy, 85
Help, 14, 86
Hyphen, use of, 91, 92
If, 15, 16
Invest, 15
Incorrect orthography, orthoepy, caligraphy, 15
Individual, 15
Infallible, 15
Inaugurate, 16
Implicit, 16
In six months, a year, 16
Illy, 16
Identified with, 16
Interested in, 17
In so far as, 17
Infinitive mood used absolutely, 36
If, with the subjunctive mood, 36
I, your brother, who begs, 38
Infinitive with to, 43
It, antecedent of, 46
It, prospective use of, 47
Imperative mood, 50
Infinitive expressing a purpose, 51
Introductory expressions, 54
Induction, 62
In spite of, 65
Impediment, 66
Informed, 66
Instructed, 66
Indecent, 67
Immodest, 67
Instant, 67
Industrious, industry, 67
Import, 67
Illusion, 67
In- [prefix], 68
Inexorable, 68
Inflexible, 68
Idle, 69
Intent, intention, 72
Indigence, 72
Immodest, immodesty, 78
Incorrect, 82
Iced-water, iced-cream, 82
Inform, 82
Ignore, 86
Impute, 86
Interrogation mark, use of, 91
Just going to, 13
Journal, 17
Jewelry, 17
Join issue, 66
Jar, 68
Jug, 68
Knight Templar, 17
Kinsman, kinswoman, 82
Lowest, 17
Left it alone, 17
Lit, 17
Leave, 18
Lay, 18
Limited, 18
Loan, 18
Loud, 18
Length, at, 18
Like, 38
Lesser, 46
Likewise, 55
List, 60
Low-priced, 68
Lazy, 69
Laudable, 69
Last, 69
Latest, 69
Leave, 69
Language, 77
Loquacious, 78
Live, 81
Last two weeks, last six months, 82
Lenity, 82
Land, 82
Leading article, leader, 82
Lengthwise, 82
Lose oneself, 86
Line of goods, 86
Lots, 86
Less guilty, least guilty, 86
Myself, 18
Masses, 18
More of, 19
Mistaken, 19
Miasma, 19
Make, 19
Multitude, nouns of, 35
Mathematics, 35
Metaphysics, 35
Minimizing expressions, 49
Monotonous final emphasis, 50
Metaphors, 50
Mistake of subject, 53
Moment, 67
Meaning, 67
Malice, 69
Marital, 70
Matrimonial, 70
Mistake, 70
Mute, 70
Merely, 70
Meed, 73
Mitigate, 74
Morrow, the, 82
Months, the, 82
Much, 82
Muscular, 82
Malaprop, 86
More guilty, most guilty, 86
Neither, 11
No good, no use, 14
Novitiate, 19
Name, 19
No one, 19
No--or, 19
Not as, 20
No--no--are, 20
Nasty, 20
Never remember, 20
Next Sunday, 20
Never, 20
Not think, 20
Nothing like so, 20
Near, 20
New beginners, 21
Nobody’s else, 33
Not--or, 33, 34
None, 34
Need, 36
Not only--but also, 38
New construction, 54
Notwithstanding, 65
Nevertheless, 65
Nearly, 70
Neglectful, 71
Negligent, 71
Necessitate, 86
One of the greatest, if not the greatest, 14
Orthography, 15
Orthoepy, 15
On the street, 21
Old news, 21
One, one’s, ones, 21, 22
Over and above, 21
Over his signature, 21
Observe, 21
Ovation, 21
Other than, 21
Old veterans, 21
Omission of present participle, 50
One and only one subject of thought, 54
Object place of, 49
Obstacle, 66
Owing, 71
On, 71
Obstinate, 76
Origin, 77
Oppose, 81
One to another, 82
Oneself, 83
Oversee, 83
Offensive, 83
Ordinal numbers, 83
Opine, 86
Out West, 86
Out of, 86
Paralyse, 1
Proposition, 22
Pocket-hand-kerchief, 22
Pretend, 22
Preposterous, 22
Previous, 22
Partially, 22
People, 23
Plural forms, 23
Privilege, 23
Present participle, 23, 50
Plastic, 23
Pell-mell, 24
Providing, 24
Presume, 24
Period, 24
Persuaded, 24
Partake, 24
Per, 24
Past tense, 24
Point of view, 27
Prefer to walk to ride, 29
Position of adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, 32
Position of of, both, even, 33
Possessive case, 34
Physics, 35
Participle used absolutely, 36
Preposition, sentence ending with, 47, 50
Particular terms for general, 48
Participial phrase, place of, 48
Pronouns at end of proposition, 50
Participial constructions, 51
Pronouns, agreement of, in metaphorical language, 53
Permit, 57
Plentiful, 58
Polite, 60
Polished, 60
Pitcher, 68
Praiseworthy, 69
Perspicacity, perspicacious, 71
Perspicuous, perspicuity, 71
Perpetually, perpetual, 72
Proclaim, 72
Purpose, 72
Poverty, 72
Pauperism, 72
Piety, 74
Powerful, 76
Poetess, 84
Ponder over, 87
Practitioner, 87
Presidential, 87
Proven, 87
Particle, a; not a particle, 87
Period, use of, 90
Parentheses, use of, 91
Proper names, plurals of, 92
Quite, 24
Quarter to ten, 28
Question, for emphasis, 50
Quit, 69
Quotation marks, use of, 92
Refer, 3
Rise up, 13
Reflexive pronouns, 13
Replace, 25
Right, 25
Rarely, 25
Recommend, 25
Rendition, 25
Reverend, 25
Road takes, 25
Remit, 25
Repetition of subject 39, 50
Relative pronoun, 43, 44, 45, 46, 52
Repetition of preposition, 51
Repetition of sign of the infinitive, 51
Repetition of subordinate conjunctions, 51
Relative clause, 52
Repetition of meaning, 54
Reply, 56
Reputation, 59
Resolve, 62
Ride, 63
Result, 64
Reticence, reticent, 73
Reserve, reserved, 73
Reverse, 73
Recompense, 73
Reward, 73
Robbery, 74
Remember, 74
Recollect, 74
Religion, 74
Relieve, 74
Recant, 74
Rend, 74
Rich, 83
Railway, 83
Rostrum, 87
Rehabilitate, 87
Recuperate, 87
Right off, 87
Right away, 87
Reliable, 87
Repudiate, 87
Sugar, 1
Sink down, 13
Subsequent, 22
Scarce, 25
Species, 25
Shall have the pleasure, 25
Seldom or ever, 26
Spare, 26
Sensation, 26
Since, 26
So much so, 26
Summons, 26
Such another, 26
Superior, 26
Supposititious, 26
Settle, 26
Such, 26
Storms, 26
Splendid, 27
Summer’s Morning, 27
Strata, 27
Stand-point, 27
Sincere, 27
Scorn, 27
Small, 28
Statu quo, 28
Statics, 35
Subjunctive mood, 30, 36
Some, 37
Subject pronoun repeated, 39
Shall and will, 42, 43
Sentence, end of, 47
Suspense, 48
Subject, place of, 49
Short, “chippy” endings, 50
Synonyms, 54
Seem, 58
Sin, 59
Surmise, 61
Still, 65
Secret, 66
Sense, 67
Slothful, 69
Spite, 69
Simply, 70
Scarcely, 70
Sewerage, 75
Sewage, 75
Spontaneous, 75
Sociable, 75
Social, 75
Satisfied, 75
Sufficient, 76
Strong, 76
Stubborn, 76
Safety, 76
Security, 76
Subdue, 77
Subjugate, 77
Source, 77
Sidewise, 82
Seeming, 83
Self-same, 83
Say, 83
Station, 83
Sympathy, 83
Should rather, 84
Short words and phrases, 84
Spread, 87
Suicide, 87
Scientist, 87
Stump, 87
Seeming paradox, 87
Semi-colon, use of, 89
Syllabication, 92
Tea, 1, 29
Than, 4
Take some meat, dinner, 28
Taxes, 28
Though, 28
Thereabouts, 28
That far, much, many, 28
The more, 29
This seven years, 35
That [relative], 44, 45, 46
Than whom, 44
This sort, kind, way, manner, 47
There is, are, will be, 48
Twice, making statement, 54
Technical terms, 55
Tyranny, 62
Testimony, 63
Taught, 66
Take issue, 66
Theft, 74
Tear, 74
Tongue, 77
Transient, 77
Transitory, 77
Trivial, 77
Trifling, 77
Talkative, 78
Totally, 79
Toward, 81
Truthfulness, 83
Tangental, 83
Thus, 83
Tiresome, 87
That much, that little, 88
Unanimity of mind, 10
Underhanded, 29
Utter, 29
Ultimate, 29
Unemphatic word at end of proposition, 49
Usage, 61
Un- [prefix], 68
Upon, 71
Unexpressed, 83
Unaccountable, 85
Unanswerable, 85
Undesirability, 85
Unreliable, 87
Up North, 88
Valuable, 29
Very, 30
Vicinity, 30
Verb, number of, 41
Verbal clauses, 53
Valor, 58
Vice, 59
Virtue, 65
Voluntary, 75, 78
Vulgar, vulgarity, 78
Variance, at, 81
Violoncello, 83
Various, 83
Vacant, 83
Voice, 88
Whether, 11, 30
Wrong orthography, orthoepy, caligraphy, 15
Winter’s morning, 27
Whereabouts, 28
Whomsoever, 30
Where--to, 31
Witness, 31
What for, 31
Widow woman, 31
We, 31
Whether or no, 31
Whole of, 31
Winsome, 32
Worse, 32
Want, 32
Whether--or, 39
Will and shall, 42, 43
Who, which, that, 44, 45, 46
Word for phrase, 50
Wrath, 57
Willing, 78
Whole, 78
Wit, 79
World, 79
Wholly, 79
Wast, 84
Would rather, 84
With reference to, 84
Yesterday’s Times, 32
Yours &c., 32, 88
You, 38
Yet, 65
Zeugma, 53