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Thomas S. Kane
Page 6 and 7: If you purchased this book without
Page 8 and 9: Contents Introduction 3 1. Subject,
Page 10 and 11: The New Oxford Guide to Writing
Page 12 and 13: INTRODUCTION growth as human beings
Page 14 and 15: 6 INTRODUCTION About Readers You do
Page 16 and 17: 8 INTRODUCTION you wish to affect t
Page 18 and 19: IO INTRODUCTION cliche fails to exp
Page 20 and 21: 12 INTRODUCTION Here we use style t
Page 22 and 23: 14 INTRODUCTION speak and write, an
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Page 26 and 27: 18 THE WRITING PROCESS don't move f
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Page 40 and 41: 32 THE WRITING PROCESS C. Marriage
Page 42 and 43: CHAPTER 7 Drafts and Revisions Draf
Page 44 and 45: 36 THE WRITING PROCESS As a brief s
Page 46 and 47: 38 THE WRITING PROCESS Strengthen i
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Page 50 and 51: PART II The Essay
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46 THE ESSAY of view are inevitable
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48 THE ESSAY Immediate and Delayed
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50 THE ESSAY Limiting the Subject I
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52 THE ESSAY There is no rule to te
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54 THE ESSAY Interesting the Reader
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56 THE ESSAY figure. Francis Bacon
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58 THE ESSAY A Word About Titles Th
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CHAPTER 9 Closing Like the opening
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62 THE ESSAY Rhythmic Variation Pro
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64 THE ESSAY Here the effectiveness
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66 THE ESSAY open a door instead of
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68 THE ESSAY Sequence may be signal
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70 THE ESSAY scientific writers som
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72 THE ESSAY he surprised them unpl
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CHAPTER 11 Point of View, Persona,
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76 THE ESSAY hides. A writer's pers
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jS THE ESSAY unbearable pity for th
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80 THE ESSAY Darwin's is an observa
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82 THE ESSAY readers as a passive h
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84 THE ESSAY only to summarize the
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CHAPTER Basic Structure Expository
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BASIC STRUCTURE 91 What did Lincoln
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BASIC STRUCTURE 93 writers adjust s
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CHAPTER 13 Paragraph Unity Paragrap
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PARAGRAPH UNITY 97 subject that det
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PARAGRAPH UNITY 99 tences. (3) Comm
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PARAGRAPH UNITY IOI A special case
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PARAGRAPH UNITY IO3 And and but pre
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PARAGRAPH UNITY 105 correct if the
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(1) ILLUSTRATION AND RESTATEMENT IO
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(1) ILLUSTRATION AND RESTATEMENT II
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(1) ILLUSTRATION AND RESTATEMENT 11
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(2) COMPARISON, CONTRAST, AND ANALO
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CHAPTER 16 Paragraph Development: (
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(3) CAUSE AND EFFECT I2J reasons, a
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(3) CAUSE AND EFFECT 129 structure
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(3) CAUSE AND EFFECT 131 It has bee
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(4) DEFINITION, ANALYSIS, AND QUALI
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CHAPTER 18 The Sentence: A Definiti
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A DEFINITION 153 To take one more c
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A DEFINITION 155 Susan is the direc
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A DEFINITION 157 Why he went at all
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A DEFINITION As we shall see later
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CHAPTER 19 Sentence Styles In the l
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SENTENCE STYLES 163 This is a fine
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SENTENCE STYLES 165 forgets the dul
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SENTENCE STYLES 167 Each detail is
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SENTENCE STYLES 169 7000 Romaine St
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SENTENCE STYLES 171 thing. In Jack
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SENTENCE STYLES 173 And another, an
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SENTENCE STYLES 175 In a few moment
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SENTENCE STYLES IJJ phrases "to the
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SENTENCE STYLES 179 Comic, too, is
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SENTENCE STYLES l8l He could not ke
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SENTENCE STYLES 183 Loose sentences
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SENTENCE STYLES 185 ment. It also e
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SENTENCE STYLES 187 the following p
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SENTENCE STYLES 189 Or, the fragmen
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CHAPTER 20 The Well-Written Sentenc
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(1) CONCISION 193 subject ("glove")
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(1) CONCISION 195 Adverbs and adjec
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(1) CONCISION 197 needed. And even
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(1) CONCISION I99 hand," "stood" an
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(2) EMPHASIS ZOI Sentence (1) is ma
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(2) EMPHASIS 203 The Short Sentence
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(2) EMPHASIS 205 The Interrupted Se
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(2) EMPHASIS 2O7 Yet this need not
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(2) EMPHASIS 209 sively. Obviously
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(2) EMPHASIS 211 [Lady Mary Wortley
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(2) EMPHASIS 213 Like the opening p
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(2) EMPHASIS 215 mar. In the follow
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(2) EMPHASIS 217 supplies: bread an
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(2) EMPHASIS 219 That consistent st
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(2) EMPHASIS 221 and amazed by his
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CHAPTER The Well-Written Sentence:
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(3) RHYTHM 225 stressed and unstres
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(3) RHYTHM 227 x / x / x x x / x /
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(3) RHYTHM 229 but not common in pr
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(3) RHYTHM 23I x / x ' / / x x / x
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(3) RHYTHM 233 And in the following
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(4) VARIETY 23 5 How much recurrenc
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(4) VARIETY 237 Prosecution dragged
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(4) VARIETY 239 Interrupted Movemen
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CHAPTER 24 Meaning To say that a wo
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MEANING 245 meaning of a word is a
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MEANING 247 fringe meanings gathere
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MEANING 249 two quite different con
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MEANING 25I Not only does the lingu
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MEANING 253 Telic Modes of Meaning
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MEANING 255 Mary [Queen of Scots] h
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MEANING sentence they may well draw
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MEANING 259 be loaded positively, c
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MEANING 26l You must, finally, real
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CLARITY AND SIMPLICITY 263 of words
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CLARITY AND SIMPLICITY 265 If unrel
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CLARITY AND SIMPLICITY 267 Some con
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CLARITY AND SIMPLICITY 269 Sometime
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CLARITY AND SIMPLICITY 271 I compla
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CLARITY AND SIMPLICITY 2J} notably
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CLARITY AND SIMPLICITY 275 other ha
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CLARITY AND SIMPLICITY 277 A green
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CLARITY AND SIMPLICITY 279 This nar
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CHAPTER 26 Concision Concision is b
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CONCISION 283 suits in obscurity an
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CONCISION 285 This is the same idea
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CONCISION 287. > Keep Prepositions
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CONCISION 289 Each play has a speci
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CONCISION 291 they do not, where th
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CONCISION Z93 t> Don't Overqualify
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CHAPTER 27 Figurative Language When
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 297 The decay o
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 299 associate w
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 301 Similes Giv
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 303 Fused metap
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 305 is more pro
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 307 The figure
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 309 £> The Veh
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 311 As London i
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 313 arrangement
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 31 5 When it co
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 317 spot, and n
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 319 Last week I
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE }Zl ployed puns
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 323 are called
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CHAPTER 28 Unusual Words and Colloc
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UNUSUAL WORDS AND COLLOCATIONS 327
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IMPROVING YOUR VOCABULARY: DICTIONA
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Main entry Superscript 1 indicates
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CHAPTER 30 Description Description
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DESCRIPTION 353 teenth-century natu
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DESCRIPTION 355 the village with it
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DESCRIPTION 357 "vagrant odours," "
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DESCRIPTION 359 The final sentence
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DESCRIPTION 361 has become a machin
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DESCRIPTION 363 growth of a tree; o
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DESCRIPTION 365 Process description
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NARRATION 367 a dominant feature of
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NARRATION 369 Their nightmare quali
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NARRATION 371 in your own mind abou
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NARRATION 373 He had been lodged in
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NARRATION 375 It can be a very powe
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PART VII Punctuation
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380 PUNCTUATION Bishop does not nee
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382 PUNCTUATION The Two Categories
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386 PUNCTUATION Occasionally a ques
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388 PUNCTUATION There are three kin
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39° PUNCTUATION Paratactic compoun
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392 PUNCTUATION nonetheless, theref
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394 PUNCTUATION what, and where, he
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39» PUNCTUATION Sheep in the pastu
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398 PUNCTUATION In the next example
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400 PUNCTUATION Single-Word Adjecti
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402 PUNCTUATION inside the main cla
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404 PUNCTUATION There is, however,
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406 PUNCTUATION and would then prob
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408 PUNCTUATION On one occasion, ho
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4IO PUNCTUATION The lectures, / und
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412 PUNCTUATION The bluffs along th
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414 PUNCTUATION pause. For that rea
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416 PUNCTUATION t> The Dash Introdu
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418 PUNCTUATION the horse's tail, t
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42O PUNCTUATION course, the letters
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422 PUNCTUATION She said, "We are n
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424 PUNCTUATION separately or rathe
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42.6 PUNCTUATION Other-directed mea
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428 PUNCTUATION Parentheses > To En
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430 PUNCTUATION Finally, brackets a
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43 2 PUNCTUATION reproduce the diac
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434 PUNCTUATION The church was, in
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43 6 PUNCTUATION But if a proper ad
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Name Index A listing of the writers
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NAME INDEX 44I Hume, David, 180 Hux
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NAME INDEX 443 Willis, Ellen, 410 W
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446 SUBJECT INDEX Balance for empha
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448 SUBJECT INDEX Hyphen, 426 ff fo
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45O Real definition, 132 Realistic
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