Business English: A Practice Book

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nternal">312.
Cautions in writing business letters, 235 ff.
Cede, ceed, sede, 34.
Certificate, the gold, 332;
the silver, 332.
Certified check, the, 339-340.
Check, the, 338 ff.;
personal, 339;
certified, 339-340.
Choosing subjects, suggestions for, 146 ff.

Cion, sion, tion, 34.
Cious, tious, 33.
Circular letters, 264 ff.
Class paper, suggestions for a, 156.
Classes of advertisements, 311.
Clause, the, defined, 42;
principal, 42;
subordinate, 42;
incorrectly used as a sentence, 45;
introductory words for, 54;
adjective, 54;
adverb, 54;
noun, 54;
modifiers, 54;
introduced by than or as, 121;
initial, punctuation of, 176;
restrictive and non-restrictive, 59-60;
punctuation of relative, 185 ff.;
coming at the end of the sentence, punctuation of, 188-189;
incomplete, 205-206;
misplaced, 209 ff.
Clauses, punctuation of series of, 171 ff.
Clear title to property, explained, 322.
Clearing house, daily routine of, 350-351.
Clearness of the sentence, mistakes that prevent:
dangling expressions, 205 ff.;
pronouns with uncertain antecedents, 207 ff.;
misplaced modifiers, 209-210;
omission of necessary words, 210-211;
shift of construction, 211 ff.
Close, courteous, of business letters, 232, 237.
Coherence between sentences, 127-128; 224 ff.;
between paragraphs, 224 ff.
Collateral, 335-336.
Collection letters, 253 ff.
Collective noun, defined, 57.
Colon, use of the, 194.
Colonization, 307.
Combination of short sentences to secure unity, 171;
for compound sentences, 173-174;
for initial clauses or participial phrases, 176;
for parenthetical expressions, 180-181;
for independent elements, 182-183;
for non-restrictive relative clauses, 186;
for the semicolon, 193-194;

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Interjection, 49;
O, 161.
Interrogation mark, use of, 162;
position of with quotation marks, 163 ff.
Interrogative pronouns, declined, 60.
Interrogative sentence, 41.
Intransitive verb, 83.
Introduction of the letter, 232, 235-236.
Investigation and discussion, topics for, on manufacture, 278-279;
on distribution, 304;
on real estate, 327;
on banking, 349-350;
on the corporation, 365.
Investments, mining, 365-366.
Investors, 184, 185.
ious, 33.
Irregular plurals of nouns, 19.
Irregular verbs, principal parts of, 95 ff.
ise, ize, yze, 34.
It used indefinitely, 207 ff.
Italic, derivation of, 3.
Italian a, 9.
Its and it's, 160 ff.
k, insertion of, 25.
Kindly, abuse of, 243.
Labor, 274.
Local news, to suggest subjects for talks, 155.
Land business, the, 325 ff.
Latin-American trade, the, 306.
Latin prefixes and suffixes, 31.
Lay and lie, 100-101.
Learn and teach, 101.
Lease, 321.
Least, used in the superlative degree, 78.
Legal department of a railroad, 360-361.
Length of good headlines in advertisements, 313.
Less and fewer, 80.
Letter beginnings, 240, 247, 248-249.
Letter, to investors, 47;
to accompany a style book, 172;
to sell a trip on the water, 183-184;
to sell a house coat, 221-222;
ordering goods, 239;
from A. Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, 240-241;
to accompany a catalogue, 245 ff.;
to sell cheese, 59 ff.;
interrogative declined, 60;
demonstrative, 60;
indefinite, 61;
adjective, 61;
possessive in form, not in use, 59 (note);
incorrectly used, 73 ff.;
joined by or, 86.
Pronunciation, 7 ff.;
slurring syllables in, 7;
of c and g, 24.
Proper noun, defined, 57;
capitalization of, 57, 161.
Proposition for debate, 137.
Public utility corporations, 361 ff.
Punctuation, 158 ff.;
apostrophe, 159 ff.;
capitals, 160 ff.;
period, 162;
interrogation mark, 162;
exclamation mark, 162;
quotation marks, 163 ff.;
comma, 170 ff.;
semicolon, 192 ff.;
colon, 194 ff.;
dash, 195 ff.;
parenthesis marks, 196;
hyphen, 196 ff.;
of series, 170 ff.;
of compound sentences, 45, 173 ff.;
of initial clause or participial phrase, 175 ff.;
of explanatory expressions, 179 ff.;
after as follows, etc., 195;
after namely, etc., 195.
Quality, its appeal in advertising, 311-312.
Questions for discussion on, manufacture, 273-274;
the retail merchant, 286-287;
the wholesale merchant, 291-292;
the mail order merchant, 295;
advertising, 309-310;
real estate, 323;
the corporation, 363-364.
Quitclaim deed, 322.
Quotation marks, use of, 163 ff.
Quotations, use of comma in, 170 ff.
Railroad, the, 360;
sources of income of, 360;
organization of, 360;
departments of, 360 ff.
Railroad company, the, 211 ff.
Short sentences, combination of, 202 ff.
Should and would, 93-94.
Sight draft, 344-345.
Signature, the, in business letters, 232, 237-238.
Silent consonant, words containing, 11.
Silent vowels, 11.
Silver certificates, 332.
Simple sentence, defined, 42.
Since, as preposition and conjunction, 55.
sion, tion, cion, 34.
Sit and set, 101.
Slang, 129.
Slurring of syllables,

_101" class="pginternal">101;
may and can, distinguished, 102;
might and could, distinguished, 102;
accept and except, distinguished, 102;
affect and effect, distinguished, 102;
lose and loose, distinguished, 103;
had ought, incorrectly used, 103;
certain prepositions used with, 116 ff.
Very and real, distinguished, 81
Voice, active and passive, defined, 84;
of the participle, 109;
of the infinitive, 110.
Vowels, pronunciation of, 9;
length of, in monosyllables ending in e, 9;
words containing silent, 11.
Warranty deed, 322.
Washed money, 351-352.
Washing machine, letters to sell, outline, 269.
Watered stock, 357.
Way-bill, railroad, 286.
Were, where, distinguished, 126.
What, double relative, 59.
Who, and which, used restrictively, 60.
Who and whom, 70 ff.
Whoever and whomever, 71.
Wholesale merchant, the, 291 ff.
Why, childish use of, 128.
Will and shall, 89, 92 ff.
Will you be so good as to, 243.
Wish, subjunctive to express, 113.
Without, a preposition, 124;
incorrectly used as conjunction, 124.
Word analysis, 29 ff.
Words, interesting, 1 ff.;
obsolete, 3;
technical, 4;
similarly pronounced 14, 15;
frequently mispronounced, 13, 17;
containing dg, 25;
ending in silent e, retain or drop e, 25;
analysis of, 32;
easily confused, list of, 35 ff.;
500 for spelling, 36 ff.;
used as different parts of speech, 51;
omission of, punctuation to show, 178.
Wordiness, 130 ff, 200-201.
Would and should, 93 ff.
Would say, to be avoided, 243.
Write, conjugation of, active voice, 88 ff.;
synopsis of, passive voice, 91.
Writing advertisements, exercises in, 315-[1] If one of the words so joined is plural, the verb should be plural.

[2] See note on page 115

[3] Loan for lend, though common in the United States, is not in approved use except sometimes in financial language.—Webster's New International Dictionary.

[4] Supply heading and introduction (see page 232).

Transcriber's Note:

Text uses both "to-day" and "today."

Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.

Pages 116-117, entry for "confide" was originally placed after "correspond." It was relocated to be in the correct alphabetical order.

Pages 171-172, the examples were placed out of order. The section beginning "reporter, business manager" to the end of the paragraph was originally located after a space following the Abraham Lincoln paragraph. The first part of the Abraham Lincoln paragraph originally ended with "nor a year it". The rest of that paragraph was originally located at the top of the next page. These paragraphs have been adjusted to read correctly. Links to images of the original pages follow.

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