Sharp Electronic Dictionary PW-E550 User Manual

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OBSCURITY

OFFICIALESE

-OR; -OUR

OVERSTATEMENT

OXYMORONS

A. Generally
B. Plural

PARALLELISM

A. Generally
B. Parts of Speech
C. Phrases and Clauses
D. Content

PASSIVE VOICE

A. Generally
B. The Double Passive

PER-

PERIPHRASIS

PHRASAL ADJECTIVES

A. General Rule
B. Exception for -ly Adverbs
C. Suspensive Hyphens
D. Duration or Amount
E. The Compound Conundrum
F. Proper Nouns
G. Phrasal Adjectives Following the

Noun

H. Foreign Phrases

PHRASAL VERBS

PLAIN LANGUAGE

A. Generally
B. A Plain-Language Library

PLURALS

A. Generally
B. Borrowed Words
C. Nouns Ending in -f
D. Nouns Ending in -o
E. Nouns Ending in -y
F. Proper Names
G. Compound Nouns
H. Differentiated Forms
I. Acronyms and Abbreviations
J. Mass (Noncount) Nouns
K. Numbers and Decades
L. Words and Letters
M. Plural Possessives

POINTING WORDS

A. Generally
B. This vs. that

PORTMANTEAU WORDS

POSSESSIVES

A. Singular Possessives
B. Plural Possessives
C. Absolute Possessives
D. Double Possessives
E. Joint Possessives: John and

Mary’s house

F. Names as Adjectives
G. Possessives of Names Made

with Possessives

H. Inanimate Things
I. Phrasal Possessives
J. Attributive Nouns Ending in -ed
K. Possessives Followed by

Relative Pronouns

L. Units of Time or Value
M. Titles of Books, Films, and the

Like

N. Goodness’ sake and con-

science’ sake

POSTPOSITIVE ADJECTIVES

PREPOSITIONS

A. The Preposition Quotient
B. Ending Sentences with

Prepositions

C. Redundant Prepositions
D. The Wrong Preposition
E. Prepositions as Particles or

Adverbs

PROFANITY

PRONOUNS

A. The Basics
B. Confusion of Nominative and

Objective Cases

C. Underused in Specialized

Writing

D. Indefinite Pronouns: Number
E. Reflexive Pronouns
F. Overeager Pronouns
G. Restrictive and Nonrestrictive

Relative Pronouns

H. One as a Pronoun
I. Noun-Pronoun Disagreement
J. Relative Pronoun-Antecedent

Disagreement

PRONUNCIATION

A. General Principles

B. Commonly Mispronounced

Words

C. Lambdacism and Rhotacism
D. The Mispronounced -ph-
E. Names
F. Pronunciation and enunciation
G. Bibliography

PUNCTUATION

A. Apostrophe
B. Bullet
C. Colon
D. Comma
E. Dash
F. Ellipsis Dots
G. Em-Dash
H. En-Dash
I. Exclamation Point
J. Hyphen
K. Parentheses
L. Period
M. Question Mark
N. Quotation Marks
O. Semicolon
P. Square Brackets
Q. Virgule
R. Bibliography

PUNS

QUADRI-; QUADRU-; QUADRA-

QUESTIONS, DIRECT AND INDIRECT

QUOTATIONS

A. Use of Quoted Material
B. Handling Block Quotations
C. Punctuating the Lead-In

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