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Guide to Grammar and Style — Contents

• A or An
• The Above, The Following
• Absent
• Absolutely
• Academies
• Acronyms
• Action Verbs
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Advise
• Affect versus Effect
• Aggravate
• Agreement
• Ain't
• All of
• Alot
• Alright
• Also
• Alternate versus Alternative
• Among versus Between
• And/or
• Antecedent
• Anticipate
• Anxious versus Eager
• Any Way, Shape, or Form
• Apostrophe
• Apposition
• Articles
• As versus Like
• Assure, Ensure, Insure
• As to Whether
• Aspect
• As Yet
• At This Point, At the Present Time, At This Point in Time
• Audience
• Back-Formation
• Basically
• Begging the Question
• Behalf
• Being That
• Between You and I
• Bimonthly
• Block Quotations
• Bluntness
• Boldface
• British Spellings
• Bugbears
• But at the Beginning
• Cannot
• Can't Help But
• Capable
• Capitalization
• Cases
• Centralized
• -Century
• Cf.
• Citation
• Clarity
• Clearly, Obviously, Undoubtedly
• Clichés
• Climactic versus Climatic
• Colon
• Commas
• Comma Splice
• Comparatives
• Comprise
• Concrete Language
• Confused Pairs
• Conjunctions
• Considered as, Considered to be
• Continual versus Continuous
• Contractions
• Currently
• Dangling Participle
• Dash
• Data
• Dates
• Decimate
• Demagogue
• Denotation versus Connotation
• Dependent versus Independent Clauses
• Diagramming Sentences
• Dialogue
• Diction
• Dictionaries
• Different
• Direct and Indirect Objects
• Disinterested versus Uninterested
• Dive, Dived, Dove
• Double Negatives
• Due to the Fact That
• E-Prime
• Each
• Ellipses
• Economy
• E.g. versus i.e
• Emphasis
• Enormity
• Equally As
• Every
• Every Day versus Everyday
• Exclamation Points
• Exists
• Facet
• The Fact That
• Factor
• Farther versus Further
• Feel
• Fewer versus Less
• Finalize
• First, Second, Third
• First Person
• Flammable versus Inflammable
• Flaunt versus Flout
• Fonts
• Foreign Words and Phrases
• Formal Writing
• Fortuitous
• Frequently
• Functionality
• Gender
• Generalizations
• Grace
• Grammar
• Grammar Checkers
• Grow
• Heavily
• Hoi Polloi
• Hopefully
• House Style
• However
• Hypercorrection
• Hyphen
• Ibid.
• Idiolect
• Idiom
• Impact
• Imperative
• Imply versus Infer
• Important
• Incredible versus Incredulous
• Individual
• Infinitive
• Inflection
• Interesting
• In Terms of
• Interpolation
• Ironic
• Irregardless
• Issue
• Italics
• It Can Be Argued
• It's versus Its
• Jargon
• Justification
• Language Change
• Latinate versus Germanic Diction
• Lay versus Lie
• Lead versus Led
• Lend versus Loan
• Liaise
• Lifestyle
• Like
• Linking Verbs
• Listing
• Literally
• Loath versus Loathe
• Long Words
• Loose versus Lose
• Massive
• Mechanics
• Media
• Methodology
• Microsoft Word
• Mixed Metaphor
• Modifier
• Momentarily
• Mood
• More So
• Ms.
• Myself
• Nature
• Nauseous
• Necessitate
• Neologisms
• Network
• "Never" and "Always"
• Nor
• Normalcy
• Not un-
• Noun
• Novel
• Number
• Numbers
• Obfuscation
• Old English
• On a —— Basis
• Only
• Orient versus Orientate
• Paragraphs
• Parameter
• Parentheses
• Particular
• Parts of Speech
• Passive Voice
• Per
• Periods
• Personalized
• Peruse
• Phenomena
• Plurals
• Plus
• Possessive
• Precision
• Predicate
• Prepositions
• Prepositions at the End
• Prescriptive versus Descriptive Grammars
• Presently
• Previous
• Principal versus Principle
• Prior to
• Pronoun
• Pronunciation
• Proofreading
• Punctuation and Quotation Marks
• Punctuation and Spaces
• Quality
• Quite
• Quotations
• Quotations inside Quotations
• Quote
• Re
• Recasting Sentences
• Redundancy
• Revision
• Rhetorical Questions
• Rules
• Run-On Sentences
• Semicolon
• Sentences
• Sentence Fragments
• Sexist Language and the Indefinite Third Person
• Shall versus Will
• Shibboleths
• Sic
• Single Quotation Marks
• Skunked Terms
• Slashes
• Sneak, Sneaked, Snuck
• So
• So as to
• Solution
• Spelling Checkers
• Split Infinitive
• Standard English
• States
• Style
• Subjunctives
• Substantive
• Superscript
• Task
• Taste
• Tense
• Than I versus Than Me
• Than versus Then
• That versus Which
• Therefore versus Therefor
• Thesis Statements
• Thusly
• Titles
• Toward versus Towards
• Tragedy
• Transition
• Transitions
• Transitive versus Intransitive Verbs
• Try And
• Unique
• Usage
• Utilize and Utilization
• Verbal
• Verbs
• Vocabulary
• Voice
• Wasted Words
• Who versus That or Which
• Who versus Whom
• Whose versus Who's
• -Wise