Index

AuthorNeil Guthrie
Pages267-279
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Index
A couple things, corrected, 1 49
A or an, 237
Abbreviations
BCE/CE/AD, 117
Latin, 124
periods, 22, 194
slang and colloquial, 56 , 202
slash in, 202
titles, professional, 175–76
verbs from, 177
–able or –ible, ending, 220–21
Above [or below] paragraph, the, 157
Accent use, French place names,
246–47
Acknowledgements, section, 68
Acronyms, 20–21
Active vs passive voi ce, 45, 179–80
Address format , 64
Adjectives
adjectival nouns , 177
adverbs and, 170–72
alternate, 119
avoid, to, 35–36
awful, 35–36
case-law, 148
comma, Oxford , 188
compound, 154, 20 5, 207
core, 35
dependent, 123
derivatives ending in L , 223
dif‌fuse, 122
diverse, 32–33
elder, 125
elderly, 126
endings, 221, 223
f‌irm, 253
granular, 35
high-level, 35
historical/historic, 130
hyphens, 175, 205
iconic, 35
impactful, 36
key, 36
loath, 132
major, 36
mid, 154
misused, 122, 1 23, 130, 136, 137
noun chains, 110
on a [adjective] basis, 85
past, 134
prior, 155
proactive, 36
rational, 136
robust, 36
seamless, 36
straight, 137

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