The Century Handbook of Writing

by Garland Greever; Easley S. Jones

• Quiet and quite, [67]
• Question mark, [98]
• Quotation marks vs. italics, [82a Note 2], [96e]
• Quotations
  • Punctuation before, [91h], [92d], [93a]
  • Punctuation of, [96]

• Reason, Statement of, to be completed by a that clause, [5]
• Redundance, [60]
• Reference
  • Ambiguous, [20]
  • Broad, [22]
  • Divided, [20]
  • Impersonal, [22 Note]
  • Remote, [20]
  • To a clause, [22]
  • To a title, [21 Note]
  • To an unemphatic word, [21]
  • Weak, [21]
• Reflexive wrongly used for the simple pronoun, [68]
• Repetition
  • Of connectives, good, [37]; bad, [38]
  • Of structure, good [47b]; bad [48b]
  • Of words, good, [47a]; bad, [48a]
• Respectfully and respectively, [67]
• Restrictive and non-restrictive clauses, [91d]
• Right smart, [68]
• Rise and raise, [59D], [67]

• Said, Synonyms for, [62]
• Same, Abuse of, [68]
• Scrappy sentences, [13]
• Semicolon, [91b], [92], [95b]
  • After quotation, [96g Note]
  • Not used after question mark, [98b]
• Sequence of tense, [55]
• Sequence of thought, [25]
• Series, Punctuation of, [91f], [91g], [91j 3]
• Shall and will, [53]
• Shift in number, person, or tense, [33]
• Shift in subject or voice, [32]
• Should and would, [53]
• Sit and set, [59D], [67]
• Slang, [66]
  • Quotations with, [96d]
• So, [36 Note], [68]
• Some, Abuse of, [68]
• Somewheres, [68]
• Sound, [64]
• Spacing, [80b]
• Specific words, [63]
• Spelling, [70]-[79]
• Split construction, [28]
• Split infinitive, [28]
• Squinting, [26]
• Stationary and stationery, [67]
• Statue, stature, and statute, [67]
• Stringy sentences, [12], [14]
• Subject in nominative case, [50a]
• Subjunctive mode
  • Defined, [58]
  • Use of, [55d]
• Subordinating conjunctions
  • Defined, [58]
  • Enumerated, [36]
• Subordination
  • Necessary, [12], [13], [14]
  • Faulty, [15], [16], [17], [42]
  • And which, [17]
• Substantive defined, [58]
• Such, [68]
• Suffixes, [75], [76]
• Superlative degree in comparisons, [4], [58]
• Sure and surely, [68]
• Suspicion, [68]
• Syllabication, [85]
• Syntax defined, [58]

• Tautology, [60 Note]
• Technical terms, Quotations with, [96d]
• Tense
  • In dependent clauses, [55a]
  • In general statements, [55c]
  • Past Perfect, [55b]
  • Sequence of, [55]
  • Shift in, [33]
• Than or as, Case of pronouns after, [50a]
• That there, [68]
• Them (misused as adjective), [68]
• These kind, [51b]
• Those, Omission of relative clause after, [2], [68]
• Thought undeveloped, [7]
• Title
  • Capitals in, [81]
  • Reference to, [21 Note]
  • Spacing, etc., [80a], [96j]
  • Quoted (books, periodicals, etc.), [82a], [96e]
• Transitions, [8], [36]
• Transpire, [68]
• Triteness, [61]

• Undeveloped thought, [7]
• Unity, [10]-[19]
• Upside-down subordination, [15]
• Usage, Good, [65], [66]

• Verbals, [58]
• Verb, Forms of the, [58]

• Ways, [68]
• Weak reference, [21]
• Where at, [68]
• While, Abuse of, [36]
• Win out, [68]
• Who, whoever, [50b]
• Woods, [68]
• Would of, [68]
• Wordiness, [60]
• Words
  • Confused in meaning, [67]
  • Confused in spelling, [73]
  • Double capacity of, [57]
  • Misused, [68]
  • Omission of, [3]

• Yourself wrongly used for you, [68]

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