homophones, 120–2
hyphens, 148
indirect speech, 108–9, 142
infinitives, 23, 28–30, 146
initial letters, 101
interjections, 24, 138
inverted commas, 94
jargon, 131
malapropisms, 118–19
mistakes, 112–28
modifiers, 67
moods, 63–4
declarative, 63
imperative, 64
interrogative, 63
nouns, 1–5, 74, 112–14, 135
abstract, 5, 135
collective, 5
concrete/common, 1, 135
proper, 4, 135
objects, 6–7, 32, 116–17
direct, 21–2
indirect, 21–2
Oxford comma, 54
paragraphing, 106, 128–31, 141
parentheses, 93
persons, 7
first, 7–8
second, 7–8
third, 7–8
phrases, 17–18, 28, 114, 139
adjectival, 28, 30
adverbial, 28, 31–2
gerundive, 39
infinitive, 28
noun, 28, 32–3
participial, 28–30
prepositional, 28, 34
play form, 110, 142
plurals, 2–5, 97–8
portmanteau words, 148
predicates, 27–8
prefixes, 148
prepositions, 33, 137
parentheses, 93
pronouns, 7–12, 115–17, 136
demonstrative, 9
intensive, 11
interrogative, 11–12
personal, 7–9, 71
possessive, 9–10, 71
reflexive, 10–11
relative, 43–7, 60, 136
pronunciation, 147
punctuation, 88–94, 139–40
question marks, 93–4
quotation marks, 106–7
rhetorical questions, 105
semicolons, 88–91
sentences, 27–64, 90–1
complex, 37, 57–60
compound, 36, 52–5
non sentences, 60–1
simple, 27, 50–2
singulars, 2–5
spelling, 122
style, 129–33
subject, 6–7, 27–9, 32, 116–17
subjunctive, 42
suffixes, 148
syntax, 27
tautology, 117–18
thesaurus, 149
titles, 107–8
topic sentences, 128–31INDEX / 165