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B. Which to Use-Suffixes or more
and most?
C. Be-Verbs Repeated After
Comparatives
D. The Double Comparative
E. Greater of A [or] B; greater of A
[and] B
F. Absolute Adjectives
COMPUTERESE
CONCORD
A. Subject-Verb Disagreement
B. Noun-Pronoun Disagreement
C. Subject-Complement
Disagreement
D. Relative Pronoun-Antecedent
Disagreement
E. Adjective-Noun Disagreement
F. Possessive Noun as Antecedent
CONTRACTIONS
A. Generally
B. Ill-Advised Forms
C. Miscue with Contracted is
D. Mispronounced Contractions
CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS
COUNT NOUNS AND MASS NOUNS
DANGLERS
A. Generally
B. Present-Participial Danglers
C. Past-Participial Danglers
D. Dangling Gerunds
E. Acceptable Danglers, or
Disguised Conjunctions
F. Ending Sentences with
Danglers
DATES
A. Order
B. Month and Year
C. As Adjectives
D. 2010s vs. 2010’s
E. Spans
DENIZEN LABELS
DIACRITICAL MARKS
DIALECT
A. Definition
B. The Nature of Dialect
C. Dialect Exemplified
D. Bibliography
DIFFERENTIATION
DIMINUTIVES
A. -aster
B. -(c)ule; -culus
C. -el
D. -elle; -ella
E. -en
F. -et; -ette
G. -ie; -y
H. -ing
I. -kin
J. -let
K. -ling
L. -ock
DIRECTIONAL WORDS
A. The Suffix -ward(s)
B. Capitalization
C. Verbose Constructions
D. An Infrequent Error: northernly
for northerly, Etc.
DOCUMENT DESIGN
A. Readable Typeface
B. White Space
C. Headings and Subheadings
D. Avoiding All-Caps
E. Avoiding Underlines
F. Listing
G. Bullets
H. Hanging Indents
I. Ragged Right Margin
J. Citations in Footnotes
K. Characters per Line
L. Select Bibliography
DOUBLE BOBBLES
DOUBLE MODALS
DOUBLESPEAK
DOUBLE SUBJECTS
DYSPHEMISM
-ED; -’D
-EDLY
-EE
A. General Principles
B. Word Formation
C. Stylistic Use of
EN-; IN-
ENUMERATIONS
A. First(ly), second(ly), third(ly);
one, two, three
B. Comma Before the Last
Element
C. Within a Single Sentence
D. And Before the Last Element
E. Bullets
-ER
A. And -or
B. And -re
C. And -est
ERGATIVE VERBS
A. Generally
B. Uses
C. Misuses
-ESQUE
ETYMOLOGY
A. English Etymology Generally
B. Native vs. Classical Elements
C. Etymological Awareness
D. Folk Etymology
E. Bibliography on English
Etymology
EUPHEMISMS
EX-
EXPLETIVES
EXTRA-
FIRST PERSON
A. Generally
B. Editorial we
FLOTSAM PHRASES
FOOTNOTES
A. The Good and the Bad