Guide to Grammar and Style -- Contents

From the Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch.
Comments are welcome.

The following index was prepared by Bob Cunningham for use at the AUE Web site. Jack Lynch's table of contents may be seen here.


| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W |

A
A or An. The Above, The Following. Action Verbs. Adjectives and Adverbs.
Affect versus Effect. Agreement. All of. Also.
Alternate, Alternative. Among versus Between. And/or. Antecedent.
Anticipate. Any Way, Shape, or Form. Apostrophe. Apposition.
Articles. Assure, Ensure, Insure. As to Whether. As Far As.
As Yet. Audience.

B
Basically. Being That. Block Quotations. Bluntness.
Boldface. British Spellings. Bugbears. But at the Beginning.

C
Capable. Capitalization. Centralized. Citation.
Clarity. Colon. Commas. Comprise.
Concrete Language. Conjunctions. Considered as, Considered to Be. Contractions.
Currently.

D
Dangling Participle. Dash. Data. Denotation versus Connotation.
Dependent versus Independent Clauses. Diction. Dictionaries. Different.
Direct and Indirect Objects.

E
E-Prime. Each. Ellipses. Economy.
E.g. versus i.e. Emphasis. Equally As. Every.
Every Day versus Everyday. Exists.

F
Facet. The Fact That. Farther versus Further. Finalize.
First, Second, Third. First Person. Fonts. Foreign Words and Phrases.
Formal Writing. Fortuitous. Functionality.

G
Generalizations. Gerund. Grace. Grammar.
Grammar Checkers.

H
Hopefully. House Style. Hypercorrection. Hyphen.

I
Impact. Imperative. Imply versus Infer. Important.
Individual. Interesting. In Terms of. Interpolation.
Irregardless. Italics. It's versus Its.

J
Jargon. Justification.

L
Latinate versus Germanic Diction. Less versus Fewer. Lifestyle. Like versus As.
Listing. Literally. Long Words.

M
Mechanics. Media. Methodology. Mixed Metaphor.
Microsoft Word. Modifier.

N
Nature. Nauseous. Necessitate. Network.
"Never" and "Always." Nor. Not un-. Noun.
Numbers.

O
Obfuscation. Old English. On a ----- Basis. Only

P
Paragraphs. Parameter. Parentheses. Particular.
Passive Voice. Per. Personalized. Plus.
Precision. Prepositions. Prepositions at the End. Previous.
Prior to. Proofreading. Pronoun. Punctuation and Quotation Marks.
Punctuation and Spaces.

Q
Quality. Quite. Quote.

R
Re. Recasting Sentences. Redundancy. Revision.
Rules. Run-On Sentences.

S
Semicolon. Sentences. Sentence Fragments. Sexist Language and the Indefinite Third Person.
Shall versus Will. Sic. Slashes. So.
So as to. Spelling Checkers. Split Infinitive. Style.
Subjunctives.

T
Taste. That versus Which. Thesis Statements. Thusly.
Titles. Transitions. Transitive versus Intransitive Verbs. Try And.

U
Unique. Usage. Utilize and Utilization.

V
Verbal. Vocabulary. Voice.

W
Wasted Words. Who versus Whom. -Wise.