"Quite So," Aldrich, 277 Quotation marks, 66
Quotations, punctuation of, 58, 59, 62; capitals in, 83; in debate, 339
"Reader's Guide to Periodical Lit- erature," 339 ftn.
Reading, 3, 9, 240 Rebuttal, 337, 352 Receipt, 101
Reflexive pronouns, 131
Refutation, in debate, 337, 340, 349
Regular and irregular verbs, 163- 164
Relative clauses, 57, 124
Relative pronouns, 124, 129, 178 Repetition, developing the para- graph by, 196; in exposition, 311, 314; in definition, 307; in argu- ment, 333; in debate, 352 Restrictive clauses, punctuation of, 57
Rests, in verse, 358
Retained object, 135 Reverend, 95
Revision, 24, 27
Rhetorical question, 216 Rhythm, 359
RIIS, J. A., 113-114, 322
"Rikki-Tikki," Kipling, 198, 222
Rip Van Winkle," Irving, 186 Rob Roy," Scott, 291, 294 Romance, 259
RUMELY, E. A., 315-316 RUSKIN, JOHN, 225, 288, 306
STEVENSON, R. L., 10, 29, 45, 103,
254, 299, 300
Story. See Short story
Street, in heading to letter, 89 "Study of Prose Fiction, A," Perry, 320
Subject, of a verb, 118; of an infini- tive, 120
Subjective complement, 118, 119, 138, 139, 175
Subjects, for composition (based on experience, 8; books suggesting, 9-11; based on imagination, II; limiting, 12-16; vs. titles, 15; lists of, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 22, 35, 36, 192, 199, 207, 212, 267, 268, 274, 281, 284, 286, 287, 302, 304, 317, 318, 338, 339, 344-345; sugges- tions for finding, 16, 200; limited, 12, 289); for debates, 344-345 Subjunctive mood, 137 Subordinate conjunctions, 171, 172, 178
"Vailima Letters," Stevenson, 103, 254 Verb phrases, 133
Verbal nouns, 143
Verbs, defined, 113; transitive and intransitive, 132; auxiliary, 132, 133; principal parts, 134; voice, 134-135; retained objects, 135, 136; mood, 136-138; indicative mood, 137; subjunctive mood, 137; imperative mood, 137; infinitives, 138-141; participles, 141-143; gerunds, 143-145; tense, 145-153; person and number, 153-155; conjugation, 155-159; potential phrases, 159-163; regular and irregular, 163-164
VERNE, JULES, 288
Verse, common feét, 355; names of feet, 356; variations in, 357; rests, 358; kinds of, 358; scan- sion, 359; rhythm, 359 "Vicar of Wakefield," Goldsmith, 268
Vocabulary, a ready, 224; an exact, 225-237; choosing, 237-241
Voice, 134-135 "Voyage, The," Irving, 40, 199
WARNER, C. D., 276, 312 WEBSTER, DANIEL, 196, 343 WHITTIER, JOHN G., "Snow- bound," 46; letter to, 106 Will and shall, 148-152; in inde- pendent statements, 148; in ques- tions, 149; in indirect discourse, 150; in conditional clauses, 151 WILLIS, N. P., 20 Words, necessary to the construc-
tion, 211; superfluous, 220-221; exact, 224-241; synonyms, 226-
235; homonyms, 235-236; anto- nyms, 236; in good use, 237-238; helps in choosing, 239-241; for- cible, 242-256; simple, 242-245; specific, 245-247; figurative, 247– 248
Would and should, 152-153
Writing, how to learn, 2; a habit, 3; reading a help to, 3
Young Protector, A" (pupil's theme), 41, 45
"Zoroaster," Crawford, 152, 223, 296
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