Sharp Electronic Dictionary PW-E550 User Manual

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B. Which to Use-Suffixes or more

and most?

C. Be-Verbs Repeated After

Comparatives

D. The Double Comparative
E. Greater of A [or] B; greater of A

[and] B

F. Absolute Adjectives

COMPUTERESE

CONCORD

A. Subject-Verb Disagreement
B. Noun-Pronoun Disagreement
C. Subject-Complement

Disagreement

D. Relative Pronoun-Antecedent

Disagreement

E. Adjective-Noun Disagreement
F. Possessive Noun as Antecedent

CONTRACTIONS

A. Generally
B. Ill-Advised Forms
C. Miscue with Contracted is
D. Mispronounced Contractions

CORRELATIVE CONJUNCTIONS

COUNT NOUNS AND MASS NOUNS

DANGLERS

A. Generally
B. Present-Participial Danglers
C. Past-Participial Danglers
D. Dangling Gerunds
E. Acceptable Danglers, or

Disguised Conjunctions

F. Ending Sentences with

Danglers

DATES

A. Order
B. Month and Year
C. As Adjectives
D. 2010s vs. 2010’s
E. Spans

DENIZEN LABELS

DIACRITICAL MARKS

DIALECT

A. Definition
B. The Nature of Dialect
C. Dialect Exemplified
D. Bibliography

DIFFERENTIATION

DIMINUTIVES

A. -aster
B. -(c)ule; -culus
C. -el
D. -elle; -ella
E. -en
F. -et; -ette
G. -ie; -y
H. -ing
I. -kin
J. -let
K. -ling
L. -ock

DIRECTIONAL WORDS

A. The Suffix -ward(s)
B. Capitalization

C. Verbose Constructions
D. An Infrequent Error: northernly

for northerly, Etc.

DOCUMENT DESIGN

A. Readable Typeface
B. White Space
C. Headings and Subheadings
D. Avoiding All-Caps
E. Avoiding Underlines
F. Listing
G. Bullets
H. Hanging Indents
I. Ragged Right Margin
J. Citations in Footnotes
K. Characters per Line
L. Select Bibliography

DOUBLE BOBBLES

DOUBLE MODALS

DOUBLESPEAK

DOUBLE SUBJECTS

DYSPHEMISM

-ED; -’D

-EDLY

-EE

A. General Principles
B. Word Formation
C. Stylistic Use of

EN-; IN-

ENUMERATIONS

A. First(ly), second(ly), third(ly);

one, two, three

B. Comma Before the Last

Element

C. Within a Single Sentence
D. And Before the Last Element
E. Bullets

-ER

A. And -or
B. And -re
C. And -est

ERGATIVE VERBS

A. Generally
B. Uses
C. Misuses

-ESQUE

ETYMOLOGY

A. English Etymology Generally
B. Native vs. Classical Elements
C. Etymological Awareness
D. Folk Etymology
E. Bibliography on English

Etymology

EUPHEMISMS

EX-

EXPLETIVES

EXTRA-

FIRST PERSON

A. Generally
B. Editorial we

FLOTSAM PHRASES

FOOTNOTES

A. The Good and the Bad

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