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gent, 152.

Good usage, 150.

got, gotten, have, 163.

grade, gradient, 148.

Grammar, 43-73:

to secure clearness, 43;

solecisms, 44;

coherence, 44-47;

concord, 47-53;

government, 53-54;

reference of pronouns, 54-55;

conjunctions and prepositions, 55-56;

use of adverb or adjective with verbs of sensation, etc., 56-58;

shall or will, 58-62;

matters of etymology, 63-64;

exercises, oral, 45-46, 53, 58, 61-62, 64-73.

Grammar. See also under Punctuation.

Greek roots in English, 191.

Green, J. R., 149.

Growth:

of paragraph from root, 75;

of thought, 114.

guess, think, reckon, 163.

guillotine, 191.

Hawthorne, N., 149.

healthy, healthful, 168.

Hellenism, 152.

Holden, E. S., 197.

Hughes, T., 149.

Hyperbole, 248.

Hyphen, 14-15.

Ideas and words, 195-197;

ideas without words, 194.

ill (adjective or adverb), 57.

imminent, eminent, immanent, 168.

Improprieties, 154.

in, into, 169.

Indentation, 1, 129-130.

India, words from, 185-186.

Indian words (North American), 186.

infant, derivation of, 6.

Infinitive, cleft. See Cleft infinitive.

Informal letters, 255, 260-261.

Interrogation point, 36.

invention, discovery, 157.

Inverted order, 104, foot-note, 110.

invite (noun), 152.

Italian words, 184.

Italics, 36-37.

James, H., 149.

Janus-clause, 49-52.

Pronunciation:

importance of, 18;

list of words mispronounced, 19-20.

propose, purpose, 165.

proved, proven, 165.

Proverbs, 213-215.

Provincialisms, 147.

Punctuation, 21-42:

disjunctive, 21, 84;

capitals, 21-23;

reasons for punctuation, 23-24;

comma, 24-28;

semicolon, 29-30;

colon, 30-31;

dash, 31-32;

quotation marks, 33-35;

brackets, 35;

exclamation point, 35;

interrogation point, 36;

italics, 36-37;

apostrophe, 37;

asterisks, 37;

abbreviations, 41-42;

punctuation for emphasis, 86-87;

exercises, oral, 29-30, 38-39;

exercises, written, 23, 27-28, 32-33, 36, 39-41.

quite, somewhat, very, rather, entirely, wholly, 171.

Quotation marks, 33-35.

Quotation, rhetorical, 22.

radiograph, 152.

Reading:

oral, 12-13;

care in, 203-211.

real, really, extremely, 171.

recipe, receipt, 159.

reckon, guess, think, 163.

Relative clause, restrictive and non-restrictive, 26, 27.

relative, relation, 159.

reportorial, 152.

Reproduction, 262, 270:

literal reproduction, 262-266;

summary, abstract, abridgment, 266-267;

material for, 267-270.

reputation, character, 156.

residence, house, 159.

resurrectionists, 175.

Rhetoric, defined, 6. See also under English, writing of.

ride, drive, 163.

“Roentgen rays,” names for, 151.

round, around, 234-235.

Words, right number and skilful choice of, 227-253:

as affecting clearness, 227-228;

force, 228-229;

beauty, 229;

prolixity, 229-231;

surplus of, 231-232;

deficiency of, 233-235;

specific words, 235-238;

general words, 238-245;

ambiguous words, 243-244;

simple words, 244-246;

literal and figurative words, 246-253;

exercises, 232-233, 235, 237-238, 241-243, 243-244, 245-246, 253-254.

Words without ideas, 194-195.

Writing vocabulary. See Vocabulary.