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abbreviations adverb clause American antecedent appositive appropriate asked Avoid AWKWARD beginning bibliography Big Brother capitalized catalog collecting primitives COMMA SPLICE Compare compound conjunctive adverb coordinating conjunction Dangling Modifiers dictionary direct object doublethink E. B. WHITE emphasis Encyclopedia English essay example Exercise expressions following sentences formal fragment function George Orwell gerund grammatical hyphen ideas Index indicate infinitive italicized labels language letter main clauses meaning ment modifiers Newspeak Nineteen Eighty-Four nonfinite verb Note Notice noun omitted Orwell outline paragraph parenthetical participle past pattern person play plural predicate prepositional phrase present pronoun propaganda punctuation question quotation marks reader reference research paper resumé REVISED Ronnie Section semicolon singular slang speech spelling structure subject complement subordinate clause suffix tence tense thesis statement things tion tive topic sentence transitional usage usually vols word group writing York