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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1901 Excerpt: ... Stream of thought, how not to interrupt, 73-76, 91. Structure, how to avoid an awkward change of, 151-153. Student, quick vs. slow, 115-118. Subject, simple, 60; modified, 60-61; concord of, with predi-cate, 148-149. Summary, before colon, or comma and dash, 94-95. Suspense, by inductive order, 112; produced by dash, 191. Synonyms, for and and and so, 27; for but, 31-33; for as, 55-58; for idea of clause, 143. T. Tantalize, 165. Tarpeia, 11. Teall, on Compound Words, 78, footnote. Terms, importance of defining, 126. Their, not to refer to one person, 145. Theseus, 97-98. They, not to refer to a species, 146. Think, 167. Thoreau's House-building, 203-206. Thought, complete, 68-69. Thoughts, irrelevant, 105-109. Thread of Theseus, 97-98. Title for a paragraph of reason-ing, how to frame, 126-130. Titles, in business letters, 187-188. Topic, chain of reasoning from, 96-157 passim; stated first, 112; stated last, 112. Transpire, 170. Truth, in historical narrative, 8-10; difficulty of telling, 9-10. U. Unity in the sentence. See Exercises, 11, 12, 16, 43, 48, 59, 131. Unless, 182. Uri, Bay of, 82-83. V. Vague thoughts, their value and danger, 102. Value of composition, 1-6. Verb, concord of, with sub-ject, 148-149. Verbals, 124, footnote. Viz., 138, footnote. Vocabularies, 14, 50, 54, 55, 58, 59, 67, 71, 72, 76-77,77-81, 82, 83, 85-86, 86, 89, 90, 130, 130-131, 131-132, 132, 135, 137, 139, 142, 144, 147, 150, 160, 196, 202-203; special, 37, 44, 48, 51. Vocative expressions, how punctuated, 202. Voice, letting fall, 16, 23. W. Walking Alone, theme-sub-ject, 54-55. Want, 170. Was, 170. Well-knit sentences, 153-157. Were, 170. Which, how to avoid making, refer to a verb, 142-143. Will, 171-174. Wish, 170. Without, 182. Words, correctness in the use of, 158-184. SU...
