Salutation of a letter, 7-10, 20. Secretarial writings, 136–153. Secretary's notices, 142-144, 149;
records, 136-139, 150. Selecting the right word, 154-163. Semicolon: before as, viz., etc., 312; between complete sen- tences, 313; with an enumera- tion of particulars, 313; with the clauses of a compound sen- tence, 312. Sentence: ambiguous, 117-121; complete in itself, 108; declara- tive, 164, 165; definition of, I, 164; exclamatory, 164; first word of, capitalized, 286; im-
perative, 164, 166; interrogative, 164, 165; kinds of, 2; modified by adverb or adverbial phrase, 281; predicate of, 165, 166; punctuation at close of, 291; similar parts of, 121-124; sim- ple, complex, and compound, 268; subject of, 93, 165, 206, 276, 281; successive, 126. Series: definition of, 293; punctua- tion of, 293.
Shall and will: conjugation of,
248; distinction in use of, 260. Should and would: conjugation of, 249; distinction in use of, 261.
Sidehead, punctuation of, 318. Sign of infinitive omitted, 276;
Study of Longfellow, 71-91; of poems, 73, 77-91. Style: comparison of, 109, 128, 135; its qualities, 107, 108; study of, 92-135. Subject: agreement of verb with, 239, 240, 281; emphatic, 101, 102; followed by comma, 310; infinitive used as, 276; noun clause, 272; of a verb, 93, 165, 206, 281; omission of, 112; posi- tion of, 93; repetition of, 115, 116; simple and modified, 171. Subjects for essays, 48, 61-64, 77, 91.
Subjunctive mode, 233. Subordinate: clauses, 265, 268; conjunctions, 266; elements,
Variety of exercises with story as basis, 65-70.
Verbal noun, 201. Verbs: agreement of, with sub- jects, 239, 240, 281; auxiliary, 236; classes of irregular, 243- 246; clause as object of, 272, 273; clause as subject of, 272, 273; complete and incomplete, 183, 205; complement of, 93, 182, 183, 205, 207, 215, 272, 282; conjugation of, 247-256; defective, 247; definition of, 168, 169; emphatic, negative, and interrogative, 257; infinitive
as object of, 277; infinitive as subject of, 276; infinitive or participle as modifying comple- ment of, 278; mode of, 233, 234; number of, 238-240, 273; omission of, 112, 116; person of, 238, 239, 273; phrase, 247; potential phrase, 249; principal parts of, 243; progressive and passive, 258; redundant, 247; regular and irregular, 243; repe- tition of, 115, 116; tense of, 235- 237, 262, 263; transitive and in- transitive, 204, 207; voice of, 231, 232, 258. Voice, 231, 232, 258.
Will and shall: conjugation of, 248; distinction in use of, 260. Words compound, 290; derived from proper nouns, 287; diffi- cult to parse, 282-287; in con- trast, punctuation of, 305; in pairs, punctuation of, 297; in same construction, punctuation of, 306; instead of figures, 289; instead of phrase or clause, 113; not necessary to sense, punctua- tion of, 317; of address, punc- tuation of, 295; of similar sound, 125; repeated, 124-126; repeated for emphasis, punctua- tion of, 306; superfluous, III; to be distinguished, 127, 154- 163; understood, 112.
Write, conjugation of the verb, 253.
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