Index
A
- ‘a,’ 112–113
- abbreviations
- ‘accept’/‘except,’ 280
- acronyms, 9, 181
- action verbs, 16, 23
- active verbs/voice, 201–203
- addresses, commas in, 150–152
- adjectives
- adverbs
- ‘affect’/‘effect,’ 280
- American English, 141
- American Psychological Association (APA), 175
- ‘an,’ 112–113
- answers, example
- active verbs/voice, 202–203
- adjectives, 108–109, 109–110, 118–124
- adverbs, 108–109, 118–124
- apostrophes, 128–129, 130–131, 133–136
- articles, 112–113
- audience, 188–190
- capital letters, 176–177, 178, 179–180, 180–181, 181–182, 183–186
- checking for complete thoughts, 31–32
- choosing verbs for negative expressions, 18
- clarity, 256–257, 258–259, 260–261, 262–263, 264–265, 266–267, 268, 270–276
- clauses, 216, 217–218, 219–220, 221–223
- colons, 169, 171–174
- combined sentences, 153
- commas, 149, 150, 152, 153, 154–155, 156, 158–163
- commonly confused words, 280–281
- comparisons, 114–115
- complete sentences, 37–38, 40–44
- contractions, 130–131
- counting, 281–282
- dashes, 166–167, 171–174
- dates, 152
- descriptions, 156
- descriptive words, 256–257, 258–259, 260–261, 262–263
- direct quotation, 140
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