INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
REQUIREMENTS OF SPEECH
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN A NUTSHELL
DEFINITIONS
THREE ESSENTIALS
CHAPTER II
ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR
DIVISIONS OF GRAMMAR
LETTERS
SYLLABLES AND WORDS
THE PARTS OF SPEECH
ARTICLE
NOUN
ADJECTIVE
PRONOUN
THE VERB
TENSE
MOOD
TO BE
VOICE
CONJUGATION
ADVERB
PREPOSITION
CONJUNCTION
INTERJECTION
CHAPTER III
THE SENTENCE
ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS IN A SENTENCE
SENTENCE CLASSIFICATION
THE PARAGRAPH
CHAPTER IV
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
CHAPTER V
PUNCTUATION
CAPITAL LETTERS
CHAPTER VI
LETTER WRITING
THE HEADING
SUBSCRIPTION
ADDRESS
NOTES
FORMAL INVITATIONS
NOTES OF INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER VII
ERRORS
GRAMMATICAL ERRORS OF STANDARD AUTHORS
CHAPTER VIII
PITFALLS TO AVOID
ATTRACTION
ELLIPSIS
THE SPLIT INFINITIVE
ONE
ONLY
ALONE
OTHER AND ANOTHER
AND WITH THE RELATIVE
LOOSE PARTICIPLES
BROKEN CONSTRUCTION
DOUBLE NEGATIVE
FIRST PERSONAL PRONOUN
SEQUENCE OF TENSES
BETWEEN—AMONG
LESS—FEWER
FURTHER—FARTHER
EACH OTHER—ONE ANOTHER
EACH, EVERY, EITHER, NEITHER
NEITHER-NOR
NONE
RISE-RAISE
LAY-LIE
SAYS I—I SAID
IN—INTO
EAT—ATE
SEQUENCE OF PERSON
AM COME—HAVE COME
PAST TENSE—PAST PARTICIPLE
PREPOSITIONS AND THE OBJECTIVE CASE
SUMMON—SUMMONS
UNDENIABLE—UNEXCEPTIONABLE
THE PRONOUNS
THAT FOR SO
THESE—THOSE
THIS MUCH—THUS MUCH
FLEE—FLY
THROUGH—THROUGHOUT
VOCATION AND AVOCATION
WAS—WERE
A OR AN
CHAPTER IX
STYLE
DICTION
PURITY
PROPRIETY
SIMPLICITY
CLEARNESS
UNITY
STRENGTH
HARMONY
EXPRESSIVE OF WRITER
KINDS OF STYLE
CHAPTER X
SUGGESTIONS
CHAPTER XI
SLANG
CHAPTER XII
WRITING FOR NEWSPAPERS
CHAPTER XIII
CHOICE OF WORDS
CHAPTER XIV
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CHAPTER XV
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