PART I
CHAPTER I. VOCABULARY,
General Principles
Familiar and far-fetched words
Concrete and abstract expression
Circumlocution
Short and long words
Saxon and Romance words
Requirements of different styles
Malaprops
Neologisms
Americanisms
Foreign words
Formation
Slang
Individual
Mutua/
Unique
Aggravate
CHAPTER II. SYNTAX
Case
Number
Comparatives and superlatives
Relatives
Defining and non-definlng relative clauses
That and who or which
And who, and which
Case of the relative
Miscellaneous uses of the relative
It... that
Participle and gerund
Participles
The gerund
Distinguishing the gerund
Omission of the gerund subject
Choice between gerund and infinitive
Shall and will
The pure system
The coloured-fumre system
The plain-future system
Second-person questions
Examples of principal sentences
Substantival clauses
Conditional clauses
Indefinite clauses
Examples of subordinate clausea
Perfect infinitive
Conditionals
Doubt that
Prepositions
CHAPTER III. AIRS'AND GRACES,
Certain types of humour
Elegant variation
Inversion
Exclamatory
Balance
In syntactic clauses
Negative, and false-emphasis
Miscellaneous
Archaism
Occasional
Sustained
Metaphor
Repetition
Miscellaneous
Irony
Superlatives without the
Cheap originality
ChAPTER IV. PUNCTUATION
General difficulties
General principles
The spot plague
Over-stopping
Under-stopping
Grammar and punctuation
Substantival clauses
Subject, &.c., and verb
Adjectival clauses
Adverbial clauses
Parenthesis
Misplaced commas
Enumeration
Comma between independent sentences
Semicolon with subordinate members
Exclamations and statements
Exclamations and questions
In.had question and exclamation marks
Unaccountable commas
The colon
Miscellaneous
Dashes
General abuse
Legitimate uses
Debatable questions
Common misuses
Hyphens
Quotation marks
Excessive use
Quotation marks (conHmced)
Order with stops
Single and double
Misplaced
Half quotation
PART II. pp. 300 to the end
EUPHONY,
1. Jingles
2. Alliteration
3. Repeated prepositions
4. Sequence of relatives
5. Sequence of that, &c
6. Metrical prose
7. Sentence accent
8. Causal as clauses
9. Wens and hypertrophied members
10. Careless repetition
QUOTATION, ETC.,
11. Cotnrflon misquotations
12. Uncommon misquotations of well-known passages
13. Misquotation of less faw.illar passages
14. Misapplied and misunderstood quotations and phrases
14 a. Parvum in multo
15. Allusion
16. Incorrect allusion
17. Dovetailed and adapted quotations and phrases
18. Trite quotations
19. Latin abbreviations, &,c.
GRAMMAR
20. Unequal yokcfellows and ddective double harness
21. Coaunon parts
22. The wrong turning
23. Ell/pse in subordinate clanses
24. Some illegitimate infinitives
25. 'Split' infinitives
26. Compound passives
27. Confusion with negatives
28. Omission of as
29. Other liberties taken with as
30. Brachylogy
31. Between two stools
32. The impersonal one
33. Between... or
34. A placed between the adjective and its noun
35. Do as substitute verb
36. Fresh starts
37. Vulgarisms and colloquialisma
MEANINE
38. Tautology
39. Redundancies
4o. As to Whether
41. Superfluous but and though
42. If and zohen
43. Maltreated idioms
44. Truisms and contradictions in terms
45. Double emphasis
46. 'Split' suzilisries
47. Overloading
48. Demonstrative, noun, and participle or adjective
AMBIGUITY
49. False scent
50. Misplacement of words
51. Ambiguous position
52. Ambiguous enumeration
STYLE to the end
53. Antics
54. Journalese
55. Somewhat &c.
56. Clumsy patching
57. Omission of the conjunction that
58. Meaningless while
59. Commercialisms
60. Pet Phrases
61. Also as conjunction; and &c.
62. Anacoluthon
