In this edition new examples have been added or substituted here and there.
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| PART I | |
| CHAPTER I. VOCABULARY, pp.1-59 | |
| General Principles | 1-8 |
| Familiar and far-fetched words | 4 |
| Concrete and abstract expression | 5 |
| Circumlocution | 6 |
| Short and long words | 6 |
| Saxon and Romance words | 7 |
| Requirements of different styles | 7 |
| Malaprops | 8 |
| Neologisms | 18 |
| Americanisms | 23 |
| Foreign words | 26 |
| Formation | 37 |
| Slang | 47 |
| Individual | 53 |
| Mutual | 56 |
| Unique | 58 |
| Aggravate | 59 |
| CHAPTER II. SYNTAX, pp. 60-170 | |
| Case | 60 |
| Number | 65 |
| Comparatives and superlatives | 70 |
| Relatives | 75-107 |
| Defining and non-defining relative clauses | 75 |
| That and who or which | 80 |
| And who, and which | 85 |
| Case of the relative | 93 |
| Miscellaneous uses of the relative | 96 |
| It ... that | 104 |
| Participle and gerund | 107 |
| Participles | 110 |
| The gerund | 116-133 |
| Distinguishing the gerund | 116 |
| Omission of the gerund subject | 125 |
| Choice between gerund and infinitive | 129 |
| Shall and will | 133-154 |
| The pure system | 134 |
| The coloured-future system | 136 |
| The plain-future system | 138 |
| Second-person questions | 139 |
| Examples of principal sentences | 141 |
| Substantival clauses | 143 |
| Conditional clauses | 149 |
| Indefinite clauses | 151 |
| Examples of subordinate clauses | 152 |
| Perfect infinitive | 154 |
| Conditionals | 156 |
| Doubt that | 158 |
| Prepositions | 161 |
| CHAPTER III. AIRS AND GRACES, pp. 171-218 | |
| Certain types of humor | 171 |
| Elegant variation | 175 |
| Inversion | 180-193 |
| Exclamatory | 181 |
| Balance | 182 |
| In syntactic clauses | 187 |
| Negative, and false-emphasis | 190 |
| Miscellaneous | 191 |
| Archaism | 193-200 |
| Occasional | 193 |
| Sustained | 198 |
| Metaphor | 200 |
| Repetition | 209 |
| Miscellaneous | 213-218 |
| Trite phrases | 213 |
| Irony | 215 |
| Superlatives without the | 216 |
| Cheap originality | 217 |
| CHAPTER IV. PUNCTUATION, pp. 219-290 | |
| General difficulties | 219 |
| General principles | 224 |
| The spot plague | 226 |
| Over-stopping | 231 |
| Under-stopping | 234 |
| Grammar and punctuation | 235-263 |
| Substantival clauses | 235 |
| Subject, &c., and verb | 239 |
| Adjectival clauses | 242 |
| Adverbial clauses | 244 |
| Parenthesis | 247 |
| Misplaced commas | 248 |
| Enumeration | 250 |
| Comma between independent sentences | 254 |
| Semicolon with subordinate members | 257 |
| Exclamations and statements | 258 |
| Exclamations and questions | 259 |
| Internal question and exclamation marks | 261 |
| Unaccountable commas | 262 |
| The colon | 263 |
| Miscellaneous | 264 |
| Dashes | 266-275 |
| General abuse | 266 |
| Legitimate uses | 267 |
| Debatable questions | 269 |
| Common misuses | 274 |
| Hyphens | 275 |
| Quotation marks | 280-290 |
| Excessive use | 280 |
| Order with stops | 282 |
| Single and double | 287 |
| Misplaced | 288 |
| Half quotation | 289 |
| PART II. p. 291 to the end | |
| Euphony, §§ 1-10 | |
| 1. Jingles | 291 |
| 2. Alliteration | 292 |
| 3. Repeated prepositions | 293 |
| 4. Sequence of relatives | 293 |
| 5. Sequence of that, &c. | 294 |
| 6. Metrical prose | 295 |
| 7. Sentence accent | 295 |
| 8. Causal as clauses | 298 |
| 9. Wens and hypertrophied members | 300 |
| 10. Careless repetition | 303 |
| Quotation, &c., §§ 11-19 | |
| 11. Common misquotations | 305 |
| 12. Uncommon misquotations of well-known passages | 305 |
| 13. Misquotation of less familiar passages | 306 |
| 14. Misapplied and misunderstood quotations and phrases | 306 |
| 15. Allusion | 307 |
| 16. Incorrect allusion | 308 |
| 17. Dovetailed and adapted quotations and phrases | 308 |
| 18. Trite quotation | 310 |
| 19. Latin abbreviations, &c. | 311 |
| Grammar, §§ 20-37 | |
| 20. Unequal yokefellows and defective double harness | 311 |
| 21. Common parts | 314 |
| 22. The wrong turning | 316 |
| 23. Ellipse in subordinate clauses | 317 |
| 24. Some illegitimate infinitives | 317 |
| 25. Split infinitives | 319 |
| 26. Compound passives | 319 |
| 27. Confusion with negatives | 321 |
| 28. Omission of as | 324 |
| 29. Other liberties taken with as | 324 |
| 30. Brachylogy | 326 |
| 31. Between two stools | 327 |
| 32. The impersonal one | 328 |
| 33. Between ... or | 328 |
| 34. A placed between the adjective and its noun | 329 |
| 35. Do as substitute verb | 330 |
| 36. Fresh starts | 330 |
| 37. Vulgarisms and colloquialisms | 331 |
| Meaning, §§ 38-48 | |
| 38. Tautology | 331 |
| 39. Redundancies | 332 |
| 40. As to whether | 333 |
| 41. Superfluous but and though | 334 |
| 42. If and when | 334 |
| 43. Maltreated idioms | 336 |
| 44. Truisms and contradictions in terms | 339 |
| 45. Double emphasis | 341 |
| 46. Split auxiliaries | 342 |
| 47. Overloading | 343 |
| 48. Demonstrative, noun, and participle or adjective | 344 |
| Ambiguity, §§ 49-52 | |
| 49. False scent | 345 |
| 50. Misplacement of words | 346 |
| 51. Ambiguous position | 347 |
| 52. Ambiguous enumeration | 348 |
| Style, § 53 to the end | |
| 53. Antics | 348 |
| 54. Journalese | 351 |
| 55. Somewhat, &c. | 352 |
| 56. Clumsy patching | 355 |
| 57. Omission of the conjunction that | 356 |
| 58. Meaningless while | 357 |
| 59. Commercialisms | 358 |
| 60. Pet Phrases | 359 |
| 61. Also as conjunction; and &c. | 359 |