Index Abbreviations, 65­66 Adjectives, proper, 63­64 Adverbs, 32­33, 34­35, 38 Agreement, 42­46 Apostrophes, 58 Audience, 4­5, 85 Brackets, 69 Capitalization, 63­64 Clarity, 73­74 Clauses, 31­32 Cliches, 84­85 Collective and plural nouns and pronouns, 46 Collective and plural norms and verbs, 46 College Writing Skills (Langan), 74 Colons, 56, 67 Commas coordinating conjunction and, 32­33 five rules of 52­55 with quotation marks, 67 Complete predicates, 22 Complete sentence, 31­32 Complete subjects, 22 Compound subjects and predicates, 23 Compound verbs, 23 Concise style, 11­15 editing for, 13­15 wordiness, 14­15 Conjugating verbs, 41­42 Conjunctive adverbs, 32­33, 34­35, 38 Coordinating conjunctions, 38 list of, 33 with commas, 32­33 Correcting run­on sentences, 32­34 sentence fragments, 25­26 Dangling modifiers, 20, 48­49 Dashes, 57, 67­68 Dependent clauses, 31­32 Dependent­word fragments, 24­25, 26 Dependent words, 34, 38 Editing, 13­18. See also Proofreading Elements of Style, The (Strunk and White), 23, 73 Ellipsis mark, 67 End punctuation, 59 Errors, impact of, 94­95 Exclamation points, 67­68 Extra­information fragments, 24, 26 Forceful style, 86 Fragments. See Sentence fragments Good vs. well, 78 Grammar, 19 Grammar Hotline, 71 Hyphens, 69 I vs. me, 79 Impulsive writing, 3­4 Indefinite pronouns, 45­46 Independent clauses, joining with commas, 52 Infinitive form, 41 Introductory material, commas and, 53 Irregular verbs, 41 Italics, 68­69 Items in series, commas and, 53 Jargon, 84­85 Langan, John, College Writing Skills, 74 Language, 84­85 Latin words, 65­66 Letter writing, 13 Me vs. I, 79 Mechanics, 63 Modifiers, 22, 47­49 Mood, 76 Negative words, 79 No­subject fragments, 24, 25­26 Nouns, proper, 63­64 No­verb and incomplete verb fragments, 24, 26 Numbers, when to write out, 64­65 Omitted letters, 98 Opening words, relation to subject they modify, 48 Paragraphs, 36­38 Parallelism, 74­75 Parentheses, 57 111