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d, the sound of, 184 A and an: distinction in use, 352 omission of, 106 Abbreviations: capitals in, 161 lists of, 369-375 periods after, 144, 277 to be used sparingly, 162, 281 Absolute nominative, 351 Abstract nouns, 22, 351 Accept and exceptj 176, 196 AcdderUaUy (not accidently)y 179 Accordingly — an adverb, 97 semicolon needed before it, 131 Accusative case-uses, 90, 353 Accusative-dative case, 66, 69-72 Active voice: change from, to passive, 39, 40, 108, 230, 365 definition, 39, 351 progressive, signs of, 41 Address: commas with words of, 121 how pimctuated, 129, 277 nominative of, 351 of person to whom one is writing, needed, 278 writer's, needed in letter, 276 Adjective (not ajetive)^ 182 Adjective: clause, 351 comparison, 77-80, 353 definition, 77, 351 hyphen in compound, 167 or adverb, 81 phrase, 351 position of, 77 possessive, 66, 68 predicate, 12, 77, 81, 82, 361 restrictive and non-restrictive, 123 series separated by commas, 116 Adjunct accusative, 351 Adjustment, letter of, 315 AdorCf misuse of, 243 Adverb: adjective or, SX comparison of, 78 definition, 351 "flat" adverbs, 83 redundant adverbs, 95 relative, 96 "where" adverbs, 87 Adverbial accusative (objective), 351 Adverbial clause, 352 Adverbial phrase, 352 Advertisements : catching attention in, 343 construction of, 342 interesting, 206 overdrawn, 349 personal appeal in, 343, 344 transition in, 345, 346 types of, 341, 347-349 writing of, 341, 342 Advertising: benefits from, 340 growth of, 339 Advice and advisCy 176, 196 Advise — trite in letters, 287 Aeroplane or airplane (not areo- plane), 179. Compound adjective, 167, 354 INDEX 381 Compound noun: defined, 354 plural of, 24 possessive of, 28 Compound predicate, 13, 354 Compound prepositions, 90, 354 Compound sentence, 14, 117, 130, 354 Compound subject, 13, 66, 355 agreement of, with verb, 58 Compound words, 165-167 Concession: clause of, 355 conjunctions denoting, 96 subjunctive in clauses of, 53, 54 Conclusion of a letter, 281, 282 Condensation illustrated, -257 Condition: clause of, 355 conjunctions denoting, 96 subjunctive in clauses of, 53, 54 Confusion of past tense and past participle, 37 Conjugation of verbs, 31-35, 50-52 Conjunctions: adverbs distinguished from, 97 coordinating, 96 correlative, 98, 355 defined, 96, 355 not inflected, 20, 96 subordinating, 96 Conjunctive adverbs, 96 Connection, genitive of, 29, 356 Consequendy — ^adverb, 97 semicolon before, 131 Contents "carefully noted — trite in letters, 281, 288 Contrary to fact, clauses of condi- tion, 54 Conversation: as remedy for trouble with ante- cedent, 110 the opportunity of, 197 the paragraphing of, 214, 215, 234 Coordinate clauses, 14 Coordinating conjunctions, 96 CordiaUy yours, 282 Correlative conjunctions require parallel constructions, 98 Correspondent, needs of a, 265 Council and counsely 177, 196 Courtesy in business letters, 271, 272 Creak and creekf 177 Currant and currerU, 177 Curse (not cuss), 36, 38, 248 Customary action, would to express, 49 Dangling participial constructions, 107 Dash, uses of, 135-139 Date, needed in a letter, 276 manner of writing, 129, 277 Dative case, 66, 353 Dear Sir, etc., as salutations, 280 Debate, subjects for, 201 Deceased and diseased, 177 Decorative heading, the, 277, 278 Deer — no change for plural, 23 Definite instructions, writing, 217 ff. Degree of adjectives and adverbs, 77-80 Deleted, distinguished from depleted, 241 Demonstrative adjectives and pro- nouns, 73, 356 Desert and dessert, 177 Desire, shall and wiU to express, 47 Determination, shall and mil to express, 47 Device and devise, 177, 196 Dickens, letter to Knowles, 316 Dictionary, use of the, 156, 163, 165, 250 Dieresis, use instead of hyphen, 167 Different, idiom with, 93 Direct and indirect questions, 145, 358 382 VOCATIONAL ENGLISH Direct and indirect quotation, 141, 234,358 Direct object, 11, 69, 360 Directness, desirable in business letters, 266, 267 Disremember, 248 Dive, 36, 38, 248 Division of words at ends of lines, 162-164 Do, 36, 38 Do and did in emphatic verb forms, 33, 34, 41, 352 DonH for doesn'ty 59 Doc, — ^impolite abbreviation, 248 Double narrative, 229, 230, 356 Double negative, 84, 356 Double possessive, 356 Doubt expressed by question mark, 145 DmiMesaly—hady 248 Draft, the bank, 314, 367 Drag, 36, S8 Draw, 36 Drink, 36, 38 Drive, forms of, 41, 42 Drown — ^no such form as drovmded, 249 Due to, erroneous use of, 93 Duly, usually needless in letters, 288 Dyeing and dying, 177 S, the sound of, 184 Each, as indefinite pronoun, 63 agreement of verb with subjects modified by, 59 Each other and one another, 74 Eat,ZQ ed — often not a syllable, 163 *'Eddies" in the sentence, 120 Editorial, the, 259, 260 Effect and affect, 176 e, g,, semicolon before, 132 Either, as indefinite pronoun, 63 EUipsea— a row of periods, 144 Elae — ^possessive,*'somebody else's," etc., 74 emrdssh, the, 137 Emigrant and immigrant, 177 Emigration and immigration, 177 Emphasis, repetition for, 229 Emphatic forms of verb, 33, 34, 356 signs of, 41 Employer, the stenographer and the, 274 enrdaah, the, 137 English, importance of good, 9 Enunciation, 182 Envelope, the, 283, 284 Equally as — ^bad, 247 Errors, types of. 14-16, 103-110, 227-235 Esteemed^ia letters, 281, 288 etc, — ^not part of quotation, 141 Ever, combinations ending in — one word, 16€ wrong with rarely or seldom, 85 Everlasting— one word, 166 Every, agreement of verb with sub' jects modified by, 59 Everybody, as antecedent, 64 Every one as indefinite pronoun, 63,64 Every time— two words, 166 ^xcep^— ^not now used as conjimc- tion, 99 distinguished from accept, 176 Exclamation mark, 128, 144 Exclamation, nominative of, 356 Expletives, 356 Express money orders, 314; 368 Expressive English, 203, 204 Extra — as prefix followed by hy- phen, 167 Extravagant use of words, 242 Facilitating for felicitating, 241 Facts in newspaper writing, 253 ff« Faint siadfeirU, 177 INDEX 383 FaithfvMy yours, 282 Faker &nd fakir, 177 Familiarity in letters, 291 Farewell— one word, 166 Farther aadfuHher, 177, 196 Faults, in American speech, 181 in planning a theme, 212-214 Favor, as used in letters, 281, 288 Favor, request for a, 307 February (not Fefmary), 179, 182, 187 Feel, when followed by adjective, 82 Fellow, in compounds followed by hyphen, 167 Feminine gender, 22, 356 Fewer, distinguished from less, 85 Figures, use of, 169, 170, 276, 280 Finally and finely, 177 Fine, misuse of, 242 Firm names, possessive of, 28 Fish — singular and plural alike, 23 Fix, misuse of, 242 "Flat" adverbs, 83 Flee, 36, 38 FUyw, 36, 38 Fly,ZQ may be transitive or intransitive, 43 Folding a letter, 284 Follow-up campaign, the, 331 Follow-up letter, the, 329 For — either preposition or conjimc- tion, 99 Foreign plurals, 24, 25 Form letter, the, 328 method of printing, 330 Formally and formerly, 177 Former, the, and the IcUter, 75 Forthcoming — one word, 166 Forward {not f award), 179 Fragmentary expressions as sen- tences, 10 Friend John, etc. — bad salutation, 280 Funny, misuse of, 243 Further and furthermore — adverbs, 97 Future perfect tense, 32 Future tense, 31, 33, 357 shall and will in, 46-48 sighs of, 41, 42 Gait and gate, 177 Gender: defined, 357 in pronoims, 65 negligible in nouns, 22 Genitive case: form of, 27, 28 same as possessive, 27 use of, 28, 29 Gentlemen—^ salutation in letter, 280 Gents—had, 248 Gerund: defined, 357 distinguished from participle, 68 possessive with, 68 unattached, 108 Gilt and guiU, 177 Give, 36 Go, 36, 37 God, names for, capitalized, 160 Good and well, 84 Government (not goverment), 179, 182, 187 "Grafted" sentences, 227 Grammar and everyday usage, 9 Grammatical Nomenclature, Joint Committee on, 27, 42, 62, 66, 68, 123 Granunatical terms defined, 351-365 Grievous (not grevums), 179, 187 Grisly and grizzly, 177, 196 Gr<yu), 36, 38, 248 Habitual action, would to express, 49 Hackneyed expressions, a list of, 244 Had aught, 61, 246 384 VOCATIONAL ENGLISH Haint — ^no such word, 248 Half, in compounds followed by hyphen, 167 Hand, compounds with, 248 aJt hand and to hand in letters, 287 hand you in letters, 281, 288 Hang, 36, 38, 196 Hanging participle, 107 Hate, misuse of, 243 Have: as auxiliary verb, 352 of misused for, 36, 61 subjunctive of, 51 tense forms, 32 use in perfect tenses, 32, 41 He to refer to uncertain gender, 64 Heading in a business letter, 276-278 Heal and heel, 177 Healthy for healthfyl, 241 Hear and here, 177 Heat, 26 no such form as h&t, 249 Heavy style in letters, 293 Height (not heighth), 179 Hence — adverb, 97 semicolon needed before, 131 Herewith — overworked in letters, 289 Hew and hue, 177 Hisself — no such word, 74, 249 Historical present — inadvisable, 234 HisUyry (not histry), 182, 187 Hoard and fiorde, 177 Homonyms, a list of, 176-179 Hoping, etc., in letters, 289 Horribly, misuse of, 243 Horrid, misuse of, 243 However — adverb, 97 semicolon needed before, 131 Hundred (not hunderd)^ 182 Hyphen: use in compound words, 165-167 use in dividing a word at end of line, 164 /: capitalized when used as a word, 159 when better than we, 294 when not better than we, 308 wrongly omitted, 16, 235 I, the sound of, 184 / am, in concluding letters, 289 Idea (not idee), 182 Idiom, 29, 83, 90, 92-94, 357 Idiomatic use of prepositions, 92-94 i. of verj>8, 31 ff. Information, letters asking, 306 Ingenious and ingenuous^ 178, 196, 241 Inhuman and inhumanej 241 Inside — one word, 166 Inside of, 94 In spite of — three words, 166 Inst, in letters, 289 Instead — one word, 166 Instructions, writing definite, 217 ff. Intensive pronouns, 74, 359 Interjections, 19, 20, 359 Interrogative adjective, 359 Interrogative adverb, 359 Interrogative pronoun, 65, 359 Interruption of thought, 119 Into and in, 91 Intransitive verbs, 43, 365 Introduction, usually needless, 234 letter of, 305. Inverted order, 359 ion— usually not a syllable, 163 Irony, indicated by exclamation mark, 145 Irregular comparison, 78 Irregular verbs, 35, 36, 363 Irrelevant (not irrevelard), 179, 182 Italics, uses of, 142, 413 It is me, 67 Itself — one word, 74 Japanese — ^no change for plural, 23 Kernel and colonelf 177 Kind and kindl'g — ^trite in letters, 289 Kind 0* and sort o\ 85 Kind of a, etc., 85 Kinds of sentences, 13 Krvew and new^ 178 Knowy 36 Kruiw and nx), 178 Laboratory (not labratory), 179, 182 Larynx (not lamyx), 179, 182 Later and latter, 178 Latter, the, 75 Lay, 36, 38, 45 layed — a wrong spelling, 45 Lead and led, 178 "Lead," the, in newspaper writing, 253 ff. Learn, misused for teach, 240 Leave — wrong after just as, had as, etc., 248 Lengthways — bad, 248 Less d^nd, fewer, 85 Lessen and lesson, 178 Lest, subjunctive in clauses with, 53 Let, uses as auxiliary, 55, 352 with infinitive, 72 Letter: advantages in business, 263 body of the, 280 folding the, 284 form of the, 274-285 386 VOCATIONAL ENGLISH language of the, 287-295 qusdities of good business, 266-272 the "mean," 316 the writer of a, 264-266 Letter acknowledging orders, 312 t3rpe letter, 313 Letter, adjustment, 315 exercises on, 317 type letter, 315 Letter of application, 297 content of, 298 exercises on, 302 stationery of, 298 type letter, 299 Letter, buying, 309 exercises on, 311 ^ form of, 310 type letter, 311 Letter, the circular, 329 Letter, collection, 332-335 Letter, the follow-up, 329-332 Letter, the form, 328 Letter of introduction, 305 type letter, 305 Letter of recommendation, 303 direct, 304 exercises on, 305 open letter, 303 type letter, 304 Letter, sales, 318-326 application to individual, 324 closing the deal, 325 description in, 320^23 divisions of, 318 exercises in, 321, 323, 327 getting attention in, 318 transition from first sentence, 320 type letter, 326 Letters asking information, 306 refusal of request, 308 request for favor, 307 routine, 306 Letters transmitting money, 313 type letter, 314 Library (not Itbary), 179, 182 Lde, 36, 38, 45 Lightened (not lightninged), 179 Like — ^not a conjunction, 100, 248 Likevyise — adverb, 97 Limiting adjective, 359 Lincoln letters, two, 296, 297 Linking verb, 359 Loathe^ misuse of, 243 Looky when followed by adjective, 82 Looky and hokU, 248 Loose participles, 107 Loose and loset 38, 178 Lose, 36, 38 Love^ misuse of, 243 {y, adverbs not ending in, 83 Mady misuse of, 242 Magazine article, condensing the, 261, 262 Magazines, 251 Margin in letters, 274-276 Marten and martin^ 178 Masculine gender, 359 May^ uses as auxiliary, 55, 56, 352 May and ca'Q,, 240 "Mean" letter, the, 316 Meaty meety and mete, 178 Meningitis (not mengitia), 179 Midnight— one word, 166 Might as auxiUary verb, 352 Militarism (not mUitaryism), 179 Military orders, shaU and wUl in, 47 Miner and minoTy 178 Mischievous (not mischievious), 179, 188 / Misplaced words, phrases, clauses, 104 Misspelled words, lists of, 174-179 Modifiers: clauses as, 12 confusion in number due to, 57 definition, 11 INDEX 387 should be near words modified, 104 Money, letters transmitting, 313 Money orders, 314, 368 Mood in verbs, 50, 359 More^ as indefinite pronoun, 63 use in comparison, 78 Moreover: adverb, not subordinating con- junction, 97 one word, 166 semicolon needed before, 131 Moslf as indefinite pronoun, 63 use in comparison, 78 Most and almoat^ 85, 88 Muchf singular as indefinite pro- noun, 63 Muchly — ^no such word, 249 Mustf used as auxiliary, 55, 352 Name, addressee's to be. gender of, 22, 357 inflection of, 22 ing forms as, 22 number of, 23-26 person in, 22 predicate, 12, 66, 362 Novjadays — one word, 166 NowhereSf etc., 249 Number: agreement of verb and subject in, 57-59 errors in, 63 of nouns, 23-26 of pronouns, 63-65 of verbs, 34, 35 Numbers, spelling out, 168-170 Niunerals, 360 0, capitalize when a word, 159 not followed by comma, 128 388 VOCATIONAL ENGLISH o, the sound of, 184 Object: becomes subject in change to passive, 40 clause as, 12, 14 direct, 11, 69, 71, 360 errors in, 66, 69 indirect, 11, 70, 358 retained, 40, 363 secondary, 363 Objective complement, 351 Objective uses of pronoun, 69-72 Obligation, ahoidd to* express, 49 subjunctive in clauses to ex- press, 53 Oblige — overworked in letters, 289 Obscure reference, 109 Observance and observalioriy 241 Occasionally (not occasiordy), 179, 182 Of — ^redundant in off of^ etc., 94 wrong in place of have^ 36, 61 Off of, 94, 247 Offhanded— had, 248 oh, not capitalized, 159 punctuation after, 128 Omission of necessary words, 106, 235 Once, 249 One, combinations of, as antece- dents, 64 excessive use of, 232 singular as indefinite pronoun, 63, 232 One another, 74 On to — two words, 166 Onto and upon, 91 00, the sound of, 183 Or, agreeme;Qt of verb with sub- jects connected by, 59 Ordering letter, a correct, 311 Orders, letters acknowledging, 312 Organization, the need of, 208 Ornery — ^bad, 248 Other, in comparison, 79 Oiight: had improper with, 61 should equivalent to, 49 Our Mr., in letters, 290 Outline, making an, 212 Outstretch — one word, 166 Overly — no such word, 249 Panoramic, distinguished from pan- tomimic, 241 Pants — ^bad form, 248 Paragraph, the: in business correspondence, 208, 209, 267 in conversation, 214, 234 in hews items, 156 in ordinary composition, 210, 214, 215 Parallel construction in similar parts of a sentence, 98, 202, 231 Parentheses, 139, 140 Parenthetical expressions, dashes for, 136 Participial constructions, at ends of letters, 281 Participial phrase, 360 Participle: "dangling", 107 definition, 360 distinguished from gerund, 68 in>g as sign of present, 41 past, as one of principal parts, 35,37 restrictive and non-restrictive, 123 use in passive, 39, 40 use in progressive, 33, 39 Particularly (not particurly), 179, 182 Partner (not pardn^), 179, 188, 248 Parts of speech, 19, 361 Party — wrong for person, 248 INDEX 389 Passive voice: change from active to, 39, 40, 108, 230, 365 how distinguished from progres- sive forms, 39 often indirect and awkward, 40, 294 sign of, 41 Past participle: one of principal parts, 35, 361 use in passive voice, 39 Past perfect tense, 32, 361 Past tense, 31, 33, 361 one of principal parts, 35 Pay, 36, 38 Peace and piece, 178 Pendant and pendent^ 178 Perambvlaie (not preawbulaie), 179 Per cent — two words, 166 PercolcUor (not percuUUor), 179 Perfect tenses, 31, 32, 361 signs of, 41, 42 Perhaps, not always set off by com- mas, 121 Period: after abbreviation, 277 at end ot sentence, 113, 144 inside quotation mark at end of quotation, 143 special uses, 144 PerpetraJte and perpetuate, 241 % Person: agreement of verb with subject in, 59 change of, 232 error in, 62 in nouns, 22 in pronouns, 62 in verbs, 34, 35 Person, a — singular, 63 Person addressed in a letter, 278-280 Personal pronouns, 62 ff., 109, 232, 361 Personally (not persordy), 179 Personified qualities, etc., capital- ized, 160 Perspiration (not prespiration), 179 Phrases: defined, 12, 361 in a series, 117 misplaced, 104 unattached, 108 verb phrases, 55 with prepositions, 90 Phrasing, illogical, 233 PiUar and pillow, 178 Place — not a proper adverbial end- ing, 87 Plan, making a, for composition, 211-214, 217, 218 Plurals, how formed, 23-26 possessive (genitive), 27, 28 Poetry, capitalize first word of every line of, 159 Point of view, change in, 107, 108 Points of compass, not capitalized, 160 Pompous style, 243 Positive degree, 77, 78, 80, 353 Possessive adjectives, 66, 68, 361 Possessive forms: as subjects, objects, etc., 68 of nouns, 27, 28 of pronouns, 66 undesirable for inanimate ob- jects, 28 uses of, 28, 29, 68 with gerunds, 68, 69 Possessive pronoun, 66, 361 apostrophe wrong in, 68 Postage stamps in pa3rment, 313 Postal orders, 314, 368 Posted, misused for informed, 241 Precede and proceed, 178 Predicate: agreement with subject, 57 -60 compound, 13 definition, 10, 361 390 VOCATIONAL ENGLISH elements of, 10, 11 necessity of, 10 wrongly omitted, 16 Predicate adjective, 12, 77, 81, 361 Predicate noun or pronoun, 12, 66, 71, 362 clause as, 12, 14 confusion in number due to, 57 Predicate verb, 11, 362 Prefixes, list of, 150 Preposition, the: at end of sentence, 70 definition, 90 distinguished from conjunction, 99 idiomatic uses of, 92-94 not inflected, 20, 90 redundant uses of, 94, 95 with pronoun, 70 Present participle, 33, 39, 41, 362 Present perfect tense, 31, 32, 33, 362 Present tense, 31, 33, 362 as one of principal parts, 35 Preventive (not preventative) ^ 248 Principal and prindplef 178, 196 Principal clauses, subjunctive in, 52 Principal parts of verb, 35 Principal words of subject and predicate, 11 Probably (not probly), 182 Prof, — ^impolite abbreviation, 248 Progressive tense forms, 33, 362 distinguished from passive, 39 signs of, 41 Promises, sliaU and wiU in, 47 Pronouns: case of, 66 confusing use of, 232 definition, 362 demonstrative, 73, 356 disagreement with antecedent in number, 232 gender of« 65 indefinite, 63, 357 inflection of, 62, 63, 66 intensive, 74, 359 interrogative, 63, 65, 359 nominative uses of, 66, 67 number of, 63-65 objective uses of, 69-72 obscure reference by, 109 person of, 62, 63 personal, 62 ff., 109, 232, 361 possessive uses of, 68 predicate, 12, 66, 362 reflexive, 74, 363 relative, 62, 63, 65, 71, 363 Pronunciation (not pronoundatian), 179 Pronunciation practice, 185-189 Proper adjectives, capitalized, 160, 362 Proper nouns, capitalized, 160, 362 in 8, possessive of, 28 Prophecy and prophesy, 178 Propose and purpose, 178, 196 Propriety, subjunctive in clauses expressing, 53 Prox, in letters, 241, 289 Punctuality in business letter writing, 271 Punctuate, why, 113 Punctuation, 113-148, 277 Purity of vowel sound, 183 Purpose: conjunctions denoting, 96 subjunctive in clauses of, 53 Purpose and propose, 241 Qv>arter, in compounds, 167 Question mark, 145 Questions: emphatic verb forms in, 33, 34 on chapters of this book, 21, 30, 61, 75, 88, 102, 111, 148, 157, 179, 190, 207, 216, 239, 251, 272, 286, 295, 337 shall and will in. Telegram, the, 335 special code, 336 Telephone courtesy, 199 Temperament (not temperment), 179 Tense: definition, 31, 364 emphatic, 33, 41, 356 future, 31, 33, 41, 46-48, 357 illogical changes in, 233, 234 past, 31, 33, 35, 361 past perfect, 32, 361 perfect, 31, 32, 41 present, 31, 33, 35, 362 progressive, 33, 41, 362 simple, 31 Terribly, misuse of, 242 Than — ^not a preposition, 93 a conjunction, 100 Thanks, proper for favor, 308 394 VOCATIONAL ENGLISH That: improper repetition of, 246 subjunctive in clauses with, 53 use of, 63, 65, 73 The, omission of, 106 Their and there, 178 Theiradvea — wrong, 74 Theme writing: faults in planning for, 212 general directions for, 201, 202 subjects for, 200, 201, 205, 207, 215, 216, 218-226, 255-261 Then — adverb, 97 semicolon needed before, 131 There and their, 86, 88, 178, 196 Therefor and therefore, 178 Therefore: adverb, 97 semicolon needed before, 131 when set ofiF by commas, 121 These kind, etc., 74 Thing, combinations ending in, 63, 166 This here, etc. — ^bad, 74 This— that, ihese— those, 73 Though, subjunctive in clauses with, 53,54 Thought, repetition of, 244 Through as adjective, 86 Throu), 37, 38 no such forms as throwed or trun, 248 Tiddish (not Hckdish), 189 TiU — either preposition or con- junction, 99 Time, conjunctions denoting, 96 Title of person addressed to be used in letters, 278, 279 Titles, capitals in, 161 quotation marks for, 142 To: and used in place of, 99 as sign of infinitive, 41 confused with al, 90 confused with by, 91 Too— adverb, not conjunction, 97 To, too, and two, 87, 88, 179, 196 Today, etc. — ^hyphen imnecessary, 166 Together— no hyphen, 166 To hand, 287 Topic sentence, 210, 211 Torttums, misused for torturing, 241 Transitive verbs, 43, 364 Trite phrases, 243, 244 in letters, 281, 287-291 Trovi, singular and plural alike, 23 Truly, not capitalized in conclusion of letter, 282 Trusting, etc., in letters, 289 Two, indicated by comparison, 79 Types of errors in school themes, 227-235 Typewriting style in letters, 281 Typewritten signatures, 283 H, the sound of, 183 UU. mood in, 50 number in, 34, 35 person in, 34, 35 principal parts of, 35 regular and irregular, 35, 363 signs, 40, 41 transitive and intransitive, 43, 364,365 Veryy distinguished from reoLf 86 viz,f semicolon beiore, 132 Vocabulary, increasing the, 149 fit., 250 Voice of verbs, 39, 40 Volition: shall and will to express, 47 subjunctive to express, 52, 53 Vowel so\md, purity of, 183 Wa^nH — ^not a proper form, 61 Want "ad," repUes to, 297 Wardrobe — ^no hyphen, 166 Ware, wear, and wherej 179, 184 Ways — improper form, 26 We, the wrUer, and / in letters, 291, 294,295 Weak and week, 179 Well, distinguished from good, 84 Went — the "I have went" error, 37 wh, the sound of, 184 When, clauses with, 123 Whence, from not needed with, 246 Where, combinations ending in — one word, 166 adverbs, 87 clauses with, 123 Whereas — capitalize first word after, 159 Whdher and H, 100 Whether, while, etc. (not wether, wile, etc.), 179, 189 Which, use of, 63, 65 Who, use of, 63, 65 forms of, 66 WiU, 41, 46-48 Wish, subjunctive to express, 52, 53 Wish to inform, 291 WithotU: no h3rphen, 166 not now a conjunction, 99 Women's names in signatures, 283 Word families, 149 Word groups, 113 Wordiness, 229, 230, 244-246 Words: as tools, 240 conunonly misspelled, 174-179 compound, 165-167 division of, 162-164 failure to complete, 228, 229 in a series, 115 interesting, 249, 250 misplaced, 104 mispronounced, 182-189 misused, 240, 241 of address, 121 repetition of, 229 straining of meanings of, 242 superfluous, 246 "understood," 105 use of too many, 229, 244-246 World, in compo\mds followed by hsrphen, 167 Would, 48, 49 Woidd saj^-bad in letters, 281, 291 WnU, 37 distinguished from right and rite, 178 Writer, used to avoid /, 291, 295 Writer of a letter, the, 264-266 Written composition, general in- structions for, 201, 202 396 VOCATIONAL ENGLISH YeSy punctuation with, 128 YovraUj you-uns — ^bad, 248 You — ^bad use for one, 232 Yours (alone — ^bad in letters), 291 understood as subject, 10 Yours truly , etc., 281, 282 RETURN 2795 LOAN PERIOD 1 2 3 4 5 6 ALL BOOKS MAY BE RECALLED AFTER 7 DAYS DUE AS STAMPED BELOW ^ ^ fe- et: CD OJ —J Od- o i. 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