Insertions of a few words made with the caret 41 Misuse of parentheses and brackets 41 Inversion of the caret 42 Misuse of the asterisk 43 Insertions of several lines 45 xvi Misuse of parentheses and brackets 46 Erasure 46 Paragraph sign wrong side before 49 Canceling paragraph divisions 50 THE FINISHED MANUSCRIPT Pages in order 51 a Manuscript not rolled 51b Corners square 51 c Manu script Dropping of final e 61, 615, 616 Courageous etc. 62, 617 Final y Plurals in ies and eys 64, 620 Verbs in ies and ied 65, 621 Lying, dying, etc. 67, 624 Studying etc. 68, 625 Finally etc. 70, 627 Heroically etc. 72, 628 INFLECTIONAL ENDINGS Plurals Common nouns Endings & and es 73, 629 Completely etc. 63, 618, 619 Happiness, business, necessa- Suddenness etc. 69, 626 Nouns in a consonant 73 a Nouns in ay, aw, etc. 73 b Plurals in ves (leaves, shelves, etc.) 74, 630 Plural of nouns in o 75 Proper nouns 76 Present third singulars in & and es 77, 631 Verbs in a consonant 7y a STEM TERMINATIONS Adjectives in ful 78, 632 Words in el and le Enumeration 80 a Alley, hockey, etc. 81 Verbs in ay, aw, etc. 77 b Adjectives in ous 79, 633 Inflection of verbs in le 80b, 634 A LIST OF WORDS THAT ARE OFTEN MISSPELLED 101, 664 COMPOUND AND DERIVATIVE WORDS Compound GENERAL RULE as to hyphened and solid words 102 and derivative words CLASSES OF WORDS TO BE HYPHENED Nouns The prefix ex 103 Adjectives Rope-like, cup-like, etc. 107 Bright-eyed etc. 110 Eagle-eyed etc. 111 Far-reaching etc. 112 Closely resembling etc. 113 Passer-by etc. 105 Well-dressed etc., attributive 114 Worn-out etc., attributive 116 Three-inch, eight-oar, etc., attributive 117 Participle preceded by agent 118 Noun, adjective, participle, or gerund preceded by object 119 Adverbs Banjo-fashion etc. 121 To-day etc. 122 Good-by 123 Singly construed phrases 124 CLASSES OF WORDS TO BE WRITTEN SOLID Nouns-childhood, grandfather, etc. 125 Pronouns-myself, whoever, somebody, etc. 126; 669, 670, 678 Particles together, instead, nevertheless, etc. 129, 671, 672 INCORRECT COMPOUNDING General rule 130 Sundry expressions not to be compounded - each other, in order, some day, etc. 131, 674 Everybody and every one, etc. 132, 673 Awhile and a while 133, 666 Sometime and some time 134, 667 Anyway and any way 135, 668 tions Grocers' bills etc. 141 Permissible abbreviations (these proper only in certain contexts) 142 g.v. 143 c 143 e etc. 143f B.C. 143h p.m. 143j A.D. 143 i No. 143 k Meaning and use of P.S. and N.B. 144 Meaning and use of cf., ., et seq., 8q., 8qq., ibid., id., vol., chap., P., pp., l., ll. 145 Abbreviation of titles Objectionable in general 146 Permissible exceptions (these proper only with names) 147 Proper use of Esq. 148 Exception: number beginning a sentence 167 Parenthetic repetition of numbers Misuse 168 Proper use; position of the parenthesis 169 Series of numbers represented by terminals 170 Illogical use with from 171 Terminals used otherwise than for series 172 Representation of numbers Syllabication Suffixes 176, 678 C Doubled consonants 177, 678 D Proper nouns 184 Days and months 184, 679 Societies 186 In inflectional form 181 Syllables of one letter 182 Position of the hyphen- never at CAPITALS Departments of government 188 Common-noun elements of proper Common nouns and adjectives in With names 193, 681 Other wise 194 President etc. 195 |