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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. 1914 Excerpt: ...237. Clauses: adverbial, 150; antithetical, 149; appositional, 150; complementary, 169; conjunctive, 144; parenthetical, 150, 167, 169, 177; participial, 148; summarizing, 170. "Cleared," definition of, oo. "Co-," compounds with, 203. Colon: definition and illustration of use of, 131; rules for use of, 131-36; use of, after salutatory phrase at beginning, -f letters, 133; between place of pubh-'cation and publisher's name, 135; in connection with introductory remarks of speaker, 133; to emphasize dose connection between two clauses, 131; to introduce statement, extract, etc., 131; to separate chapter and verse in Scripture passages, 134; clause from illustration or amplification, 131; hours and minutes in time-indications, 134. Columns of figures, spacing of, 245. Combination of words into one adjective preceding noun, use of hyphen for, 183. Comma: definition and illustrations of use of, 141; omission of, between two adjectives, 147; in signatures and after author's name at beginning of articles, 161; use of, after digits indicating thousands, 159; before "and," "or," and "nor," 143; before "of" in con-nection with residence or position, 157; omission of, between consecutive pages, etc., 158; between month and year, 160; in connection with adjectival phrases, 152; omitted before 'rather," 146; with adverbial clauses, 150; with anti-thetical clauses, 149; with appositional clauses, 150; with brief quotations or maxims, 156; with clauses ending in different prepositions, 153; with con-junctions, 144; with conjunctions, ad-verbs, connective particles, and phrases, 145; with parenthetical clauses, 150; with participial clauses, 148; to indicate omissions, 155; to separate identical, or simila...
