n?

59. What should be avoided in the use of prepositions?

60. Do passive verbs ever have objects?

61. What is a pronoun?

62. What common error occurs in the use of plural possessive pronouns?

63. What common error occurs in the use of cases in subordinate clauses?

64. What danger is there in the use of pronouns, and how can it be
avoided?

65. What is an adverb?

66. What is the important distinction in the use of adverbs and
adjectives?

67. What rule is to be observed in the use of negatives?

68. What is a preposition?

69. Where is it placed in the sentence?

70. What is a conjunction?

71. What is said of _and_ and _but_?

72. How should we pair _either_, _neither_, _or_, and _nor_?

73. What is the rule about placing correlatives?

74. What is an interjection?

75. Does it make much difference where words are put in a sentence? Why?

76. What is the general rule for placing words?

77. When may words be omitted?

78. What is the danger in such omission?

79. Mention some objectionable abbreviations of this sort.

80. What is the writer's task?

81. What three abuses are to be avoided?

82. What are Campbell's five canons?

83. What are the rules for the formation of sentences?

84. What are the rules for the formation of paragraphs?

GLOSSARY

AMBIGUITY--The possibility of more than one meaning.

APPOSITION--When the meaning of a noun or pronoun is made clear or
emphatic by the use of another noun or pronoun the two are said to be in
apposition, e. g., John, the old pressman.

AUXILIARY VERB--A verb used to help to express the meaning of another
verb by showing its voice, mood or tense.

CLAUSE--A group of words consisting of a subject and predicate with
their modifiers and forming a part of a sentence: a sentence within a
sentence.

COLLECTIVE NOUN--A noun indicating a collection of units considered as a
whole, e. g., _crowd_.

COMPOUND WORDS--Words made up of two or more words used together to
express one idea.

CONTEXT--The entire writing from which a text or passage is taken.

CORRELATIVE--A term applied to pairs of conjunctions or other words or
phrases which imply or involve each other.

DICTION--The choice and use of words.

GRAMMAR--The science that treats of the principles that govern the
correct use of language in either spoken or written form; the science of
the sentence and its elements.

HETEROGENEOUS SENTENCES--Sentences containing unre