abbreviations, 70–2, 82 acronyms, 73–4 adjectives, 6, 26 adverbs, 27–8 apostrophes, 68–9 application forms, 148, 155–9 articles, 10 autobiography, 7 

bibliography, 101 biography, 8 blocking, 136 

capital letters, 5 clauses, 21–5, 93–5 dependent, 22 main, 22 clichés, 87 colons, 38 commas, 33–7 comparisons, 84–5 comparative, 84 positive, 84 superlative, 84–5 consonants, 53 conjunctions (connectives), 21–4 contractions, 72 

## Index 

covering letter, 157–8 curriculum vitae CV, 149–55 

dashes, 39 derivations, 64 dictionary, 63 direct speech, 46–8 

essay writing, 99–105, 107 e-mail, 133, 148–9 envelopes, 140 exclamation marks, 40 

forms, 117–133 full stops, 32–3 

gerunds, 13 

homonyms, 62–3 homophones, 59–62 

indirect speech, 49–50 initial letters, 73–4 inverted commas, 46–9 

jargon, 86–7 justifying, 136 

