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.

Yes and no, 297.