Index

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Abbreviations and periods, 17

–able or –ible, ending, 138–39

Above [or below] paragraph, the, 156

A couple things, corrected, 96

Acronyms

e-mail, 39

MAGIC CARPET, 15n

MARILYN, 15n

military, 15n

SPEECH Act, 15n

TILA-RESPA, 15

TL;DR, 49

TRID, and, 15

USA PATRIOT Act, 15

using, 15

Active vs passive construction, 111–12

Adjectival dependent clauses, 54

Adjective modier order, 105–6

Advanced Legal Research and

Writing Class

danger of cultural references, 9

lawyerly use of Latin, 31–32

Adverbs, avoiding, 106–7

Adverse vs averse, 78

Aect vs eect, 78

Aggregators

eect on blog exposure, 1, 5

Lexology, 1, 8, 12, 13, 15

Mondaq, 1, 5

Alot, 94

Alright, 94

Ambiguity, 65

Among or between, three things, 70–71

Amplifying the obvious, 98

Amuse vs bemuse, 79

And/or, misuse of, 64

And or but, starting sentences with,

154

Anglo-Saxon vs Latin or French

derivatives, 97–98

Anti-spam legislation, complying

with, 4

Anyways, meaning, 94

Apostrophes. See also Punctuation

catastrophic, 108–11

greengrocer’s, 109

law rms, 111

past tenses, 110

plurals, 109

possessive pronouns, 108

possessors, 108, 151

surnames and, 108, 151

tricky contractions, 108

Appraise vs apprise, 79