Good English: How to Write it |
Contents
AGREEMENT AND RELATIONSHIP | 6 |
THE PATTERN OF THE SENTENCE | 29 |
POINTS OF PUNCTUATION | 81 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
A. E. Housman adjective adjective phrase adverb antecedent arise Authorised Version become called clause Cobbett comma common confusion conjunction consonant construction context Dictionary difficulty direct speech doubt Education English Language Eric Partridge errors especially example expression fact familiar following sentence Fowler full stop gerund give grammar hyphen idiom illustrated infinitive intended interesting jargon language Latin letter Logan Pearsall Smith malapropisms meaning metaphor Modern English Usage modern usage non-defining normal Note noun or pronoun object ordinary Oxford P. G. Wodehouse parenthesis passage past participle pattern perhaps plain plural predicate prefix preposition prose punctuation qualify question quotation marks quoted reader reason recognise relationship relative pronoun represented root rule schools second sentence semi-colon sense Shakespeare simple singular Sir Charles Darwin Sir Ernest Gowers sometimes sound spelling subject form suffix syntactical syntax tense thing thought tion usually verb vowel words writer written