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Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers Glenn H. Leggett,Carl David Mead,Melinda G. Kramer Snippet view - 1988 |
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abbreviations action adjectives adverb American antecedent appositives appropriate audience avoid balloon beginning caffeine capital Colloquial colon comma splice common CONFUSING constructions coordinating conjunction correct dangling dictionary draft E. B. White effective elliptical clause emphasis English essay example EXERCISE express FAULTY REVISED following sentences FRAGMENT gerund grammatical hyphen ideas independent clause indicate infinitive language letter main clause main verb meaning modify Mount Everest nonrestrictive noun object paper paragraph parallel parentheses parks participial phrases passive voice past participle past tense person personal computer plain form plural predicate preposition present pronoun punctuation question quotation marks readers refer Revise the following Richter scale Section semicolon sentence elements sentences to eliminate separate shifts singular sometimes speech spelling statement student subordinate clause tences things tion usage verb form whale words writing written