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Garland Greever. The Century Handbook of Writing
The Century Handbook of Writing
Table of Contents
PREFACE
TO THE STUDENT
SENTENCE STRUCTURE
COMPLETENESS OF THOUGHT
Fragments Wrongly Used as Sentences
Incomplete Constructions
Necessary Words Omitted
Comparisons
Cause and Reason
is when or is where Clauses
Undeveloped Thought
Transitions
9. EXERCISE IN COMPLETENESS OF THOUGHT. A. Fragments Misused as Sentences
B. Incomplete Constructions
C. Incomplete Logic
D. Undeveloped Thought and Transitions
UNITY OF THOUGHT
Unrelated Ideas in One Sentence
Excessive Detail
Stringy Sentences to be Broken up
Choppy Sentences to be Combined
Excessive Coördination
Faulty Subordination of the Main Thought
Subordination Thwarted by and
The and which construction
Unity Thwarted by Punctuation. The Comma Splice
B. One Thought in a Sentence
C. Excessive Coördination
D. Upside-down Subordination
CLEARNESS OF THOUGHT
REFERENCE
Divided Reference
Weak Reference
Broad Reference
Dangling Participle or Gerund
COHERENCE
General Incoherence
Logical Sequence
Squinting Modifier
Misplaced Word
Split Construction
29. EXERCISE IN CLEARNESS OF THOUGHT. A. Reference of Pronouns
B. Dangling Modifiers
C. Coherence
PARALLEL STRUCTURE
Parallel Structure for Parallel Thoughts
Correlatives
CONSISTENCY. Shift in Subject or Voice
Shift in Number, Person, or Tense
Mixed Constructions
Mixed Imagery
USE OF CONNECTIVES. The Exact Connective
List of Connectives
Repetition of Connective with a Gain in Clearness
Repetition of Connective with a Loss in Clearness
39. EXERCISE IN CLEARNESS OF THOUGHT. A. Parallel Structure
B. Shift in Subject or Voice
C. Shift in Number, Person, or Tense
D. The Exact Connective
E. Repetition of Connectives
EMPHASIS
Emphasis by Position
Emphasis by Separation
Emphasis by Subordination
The Periodic Sentence
Order of Climax
The Balanced Sentence
The Weak Effect of the Passive Voice
Effective Repetition
Offensive Repetition
49. EXERCISE IN EMPHASIS. A. Lack of Emphasis in General
B. Loose or Unemphatic Structure
GRAMMAR
Case
Number
Agreement
Shall and Will, Should and Would
Principal Parts
Tense, Mode, Auxiliaries
Adjective and Adverb
A Word in a Double Capacity
Parts of Speech, Other Grammatical Terms, Conjugation. The Parts of Speech and Their Uses
Other Grammatical Terms
Abridged Conjugation of the verb to take
Verbals
59. EXERCISE IN GRAMMAR. A. Case of Pronouns
B. Agreement
C. Shall and Will, Should and Would
D. Lie, lay; sit, set; rise, raise
E. Principal Parts of Verbs
F. General
DICTION
Wordiness
Triteness
The Exact Word
Concreteness
Sound
Subtle Violations of Good Use: Faulty Idioms, Colloquialisms
Gross Violations of Good Use: Barbarisms, Improprieties, Slang
Words Often Confused in Meaning
Glossary of Faulty Diction
B. The Exact Word
C. Words Sometimes Confused in Meaning
D. Colloquialism, Slang, Faulty Idiom, etc
SPELLING
Recording Errors
Pronouncing Accurately
Logical Kinship in Words
Superficial Resemblances between Words
Words in ei or ie
Doubling a Final Consonant
Final e before a Suffix Beginning with a Vowel
Plurals
Compounds
79. SPELLING LIST
MISCELLANEOUS
Manuscript
Capitals
Italics
Abbreviations
Numbers
Syllabication
Outlines
Letters
Paragraphs
89. MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISE
PUNCTUATION
The Period
The Semicolon
The Colon
The Dash
Parenthesis Marks and Brackets
Quotation Marks
The Apostrophe
The Question Mark and the Exclamation Point
99. EXERCISE IN PUNCTUATION. A
B
100. GENERAL EXERCISE
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
INDEX
