Index
abbreviations, 70–2, 82
acronyms, 73–4
adjectives, 6, 26
adverbs, 27–8
apostrophes, 68–9
application forms, 148, 155–9
articles, 10
autobiography, 7
bibliography, 101
biography, 8
blocking, 136
capital letters, 5
clauses, 21–5, 93–5
dependent, 22
main, 22
clichés, 87
colons, 38
commas, 33–7
comparisons, 84–5
comparative, 84
positive, 84
superlative, 84–5
consonants, 53
conjunctions (connectives),
21–4
contractions, 72
covering letter, 157–8
curriculum vitae CV, 149–55dashes, 39
derivations, 64
dictionary, 63
direct speech, 46–8essay writing, 99–105, 107
e-mail, 133, 148–9
envelopes, 140
exclamation marks, 40forms, 117–133
full stops, 32–3gerunds, 13homonyms, 62–3
homophones, 59–62indirect speech, 49–50
initial letters, 73–4
inverted commas, 46–9jargon, 86–7
justifying, 136173