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GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT
due to homonyms, 10-15; hyphenation
in, 23-31; limitations of spell-checkers
in, 1, 8, 10; overview, 1-2; typos, 8-9
Spelling variations: American/British
differences, 5-6, 17-19; differences in
dictionaries, 16-17, 21-22, 281;
examples of common variants, 19-22;
of foreign words and names, 8, 22;
overview, 16-17; risks in using
unconventional spelling, 16-17, 21-22
Split infinitives, 259-261
Square brackets. See Brackets
Squinting modifiers, 233-235, 237
Stage directions: colon with, 104; italicizing
of, 283-284; parentheses or brackets
with, 170, 283
Style guides: as a guide for spelling, 21;
differences in treatment of foreign
words, 281; reasons to abide by, 16
Style: capturing accents and speech patterns,
318-319; avoiding heavy style,
319-321; jargon, 317-318; ordering of
information, 311-313, 322; organization
within a sentence, 308-311, 322;
avoiding overuse of a word, 315-317,
322; reading level, 304-306; avoiding
redundancy, 313-315; sentence length,
306-308; techniques for improving,
321-323; See also Active voice, Passive
voice
Subheadings. See Headings
Subject-verb agreement: with alternative
subjects, 207-208; with collective
nouns, 214-216; with compound
subjects, 205-207; definition, 203; with
indefinite pronouns, 217-218; with
modifying phrases, 209-210; with
parenthetical phrases, 208-209; with
phrases including one or number,
218-219; with predicate nouns, 211;
328
with terms of quantity, 216-217; with
unusual plurals or singulars, 219-222;
with verb preceding subject, 211-213
Subjects: and active or passive voice, 286;
alternative, 56, 207-208; compound,
56, 205-207; definition, 55, 205;
examples of, 55-56; represented by
pronouns, 238-24 7; See also Subjectverb
agreement
Subordinate clauses. See Dependent clauses
Subordinating conjunctions, 57-58
Suffixes: hyphenation with, 28-30, 128, 163;
in negative formations, 48, 50
Superlatives, 35
Suspension hyphen, 135-136
That versus who, 24 7
The number of, 218-219
They as singular pronoun, 253-254, 297-298,
300; See also Male-only pronouns
Time indicators: punctuation of, 103, 111;
small caps with, 275-276
Titles: capitalization of, 270-272; colon with,
103; italicizing of, 282-283; quotation
marks around, 180, 282
Trade names, capitalization of, 271
Typos, 8-9
Uppercase letters. See Capitalization
Voice. See Active voice, Passive voice
Which versus that, 77-79, 246-247
Who versus whom, 244-246
Whose versus who's, 248-249
Word breaks. See Hyphen
Words. See Homonyms, Jargon, Misused
words, Negative formations, Overuse of
a word, Plural formations
Writing style. See Style