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any one, 143 anyone, 143 any way, 143 anyway, 34, 143 apposition, 74, 113, 114 archaic, 37 articles, 52 as, 54, 76, 135, 143 as ... as, 77, 87, 103 as if, 74, 111 as much, 53 as though, 74, 87 as well, 93, 135 as+ing-clause, 76 aspect, 72 aspective function, 61 at, 143 attributive adjectives, 64 attributive and adverbial prepositional phrases, 59 averse, converse, inverse, and reverse, 22 avoid notation, 15 background future situation, 135 bare infinitive, 30, 75, 104 be, 125, 143 because, 34, 106, 143 because of, 106, 144 being, 31 besides, 94, 143 both, 52, 54, 143 both vs. the two, 122 British English, 42 but, 110 but ... however/although, 102 but for, 108 but then, 101 by far, 95 by method, 136 Campbell R., 144 can’t, 125 cardinals, 52 Carrol L., 29, 143 certain, 53 certainly and surely, 93 Chandler R., 92 Cicero, 41 clarity and obscurity, 8 Clark J., 114, 117, 177 clause, 64, 89, 101 cleft sentence, 100 collocations, 40 comma splice, 103, 111 common noun, 44 comparatives, 95 complement, 75 complementation, 118 compound conjunction, 110 compounds, 45 concise writing, 34 conditional mood, 72 conjunct, 90, 112 conjunction, 74, 90, 110 conjunctions introducing gerunds, 87 contain, 15 continuous (= progressive) aspect, 72 continuous tenses, 79 contractions, 125 coordination, 101 copula, 71 correlative subordinators, 102 could, 144 count and noncount nouns, 58 countable noun, 44 currently, 125 dangling construction, 23, 29 dash, 117 declarative sentences are the best, 14 defining element, 112 definite aspect, 72 demonstratives, 52 descriptive of-phrase, 59 despite, 143 determiner, 51 direct and indirect speech, 38 direct object, 74 direct style, 38 discontinuous noun phrases, 67 disjunct, 90, 112 distributives, 51 don't, 125 222
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