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N ordinal numbers 33 quotation marks 95 bulleted text 116–117
sentences 68, 69
pronouns 20, 33, 34–35, 58,
ranges 115
names Roman numerals 119 time 119 243
alphabetical order 129 writing out 107, 118, 119 Web and e-mail 94 and adjectives 26
American spelling 175 personality 211, 225 demonstrative 35
buildings and monuments personification 85, 209 gender agreement 36–37
123 O persuasive writing 202–203 indefinite 35, 36, 37, 53, 81
in letter writing 200, 201 phonemes 130, 132 interrogative 35
objects 38, 68
proper nouns 23, 122, 159, phrasal verbs 56–57, 61, 106 negatives 81
offensive words 121
175 phrases 64–65, 232, 239 personal 34, 36, 37, 42, 203,
Old English words 127, 139
vehicles 123 adjective 64 205, 211, 227
omitted words
narratives 212–213 adverbial 64 I or me? 78
asterisks 121
changing viewpoints 218 long to short 182 possessive 34
contractions 80, 104, 237
narrators 212, 216 noun phrases 23, 30, 32, reflexive 34, 35
ellipses 95
NATO phonetic alphabet 133 60,64, 65 relative 34, 67, 82, 83
spoken language 12, 223
negatives 232 prepositional 23, 52, 53, as subjects 38
see also abbreviations
contractions 80, 237 60, 65, 77 tenses 42
onomatopoeia 85, 209
double negatives 80, 81 pictures 191, 195, 196, 197, pronunciation
opinions 190, 193
sentences 48, 80 life maps 210 accents 15, 161, 225, 228
in arguments 202
newspapers 190, 192, presentations 229 acronyms 173
autobiographical writing 211
198–199, 219 reviews 207 scripts 216 auxiliary letters 161
advice columns 205 writing without 206 plagiarism 186 dialects 14, 15
headlines 194, 196, 199 overused words 182, 221 plays see scripts hard and soft letter sounds
images 195 oxymoron 85 plots 212, 218 144–145, 151
pull quotes 195 plurals homonyms 166
nonfiction 190–191 using apostrophes 104 noun or verb? 168
advice 205 P bound morphemes 136 public speaking 228
analysis 206, 207 collective nouns 25 silent letters 160–161
autobiographies 210–211 page references 115, 119 determiners 36, 37 syllables 134–135
reviews 207 paragraphs 187, 188–189, 221 nouns 24–25 word stress 135
travel 211 blogs 215 using parentheses 114 public speaking
nonrestrictive clauses 82, 83 e-mails 201 possessives 105 see spoken language
note-taking 186, 187, 192 indentation 188 pronouns 36 punctuation 90–123, 236–237
noun phrases 23, 30, 32, informative writing 196 verbs 25, 52–53 punctuation marks 92–93,
60,64, 65 length 199 poetry 236
nouns 22–23 opening paragraphs 188 assonance 183 puns 85, 183, 199
and adjectives 26 Web 214 haiku 134
abstract nouns 22 parentheses 114, 247 possession
collective nouns 22, 52 directions in scripts 217 apostrophes 104–105 Q
common nouns 22 and interjections 63 bound morphemes 136 quantity, expressing 33, 53
compound words 162–163 and interruptions 113, 114 determiners 33 question marks 110–111
and determiners 32 marking mistakes 220 nouns 105 after an ellipsis 95
infinitives 39 participles 46–47 pronouns 34 and quotation marks 88,
in phrases 23, 30, 60,64, 65 dangling participles 72, 77 posters 203 109
participles 47 past participles 44, 46, pound signs 121 questions 68, 110–111, 224
phrases 60, 64 51, 243 prefixes 107, 127, 134, 140, 142 embedded 110
plurals 24–25 as adjectives 47 155, 241 indirect 110
possessives 105 passive voice 54 morphemes 136 interrogative determiners 33
proper nouns 23, 122, 159 present participles 45, 46 prepositional phrases 52, 53, interrogative pronouns 35
used as adjectives 26 as adjectives 47 60, 65 rhetorical 111, 188, 203, 227
American spelling 175 as nouns 47 misplaced 77 tag 111
as subjects 38 particles 56 and nouns 23 quotation marks 108–109
numbers 118–119 parts of speech 20–21, 232 prepositions 20, 60–61 dialogue 213
alphabetical order 129 periods 94–95 and nouns 28 direct speech 88, 108–109,
Arabic numerals 118 abbreviations 94, 172, 173 passive voice 54 double or single quotation
cardinal numbers 33 bibliographies 187 in phrasal verbs 56, 57 marks 109
dates 118 bulleted text 117 in phrases 52, 60, 61, 64, 65 quotations 109, 186, 193
as determiners 33 ellipses 95 in writing 185
instructions 197 indirect questions 110 presentations 228–229