INDEX TO ADMONITIONS
Reading edition
The Whole Composition
100. Opening devices
101. Point of view
102. What to include
103. Distraction
104. Serious tone
105. Light tone
106. Sequence
107. Chronological order
108. Position
109. Abstract to concrete
110. Summary to detail
111. Important to less so
112. Familiar to unfamiliar
113. Climax
114. Welding
115. Connectives
116. Repetition
117. Recapitulation
118. Division
119. Space emphasis
120. Place emphasis
121. Conclusion
122. Title
123. Plan
124. Revision by plan
125. Practice
The Paragraph
200. Indention
201. Partly blank line
202. No indention
203. Conversation
204. Combination
205. Separation
206. Violent break
207. Irrelevant ideas
208. Topic sentence
209. Arrangement
210. Connectives
211. Linking
212. Shift in number
213. Shift in person
214. Shift in tense
215. Shift in voice
216. Shift in mood
217. Place emphasis
218. Space emphasis
219. Practice
Sentence Correctness Case
300. Subject in nominative
301. Who as subject
302. Who as subject after verb
303. Predicate nominative
304. Pronoun in apposition
305. Pronoun after as, than
306. Possessive with gerund
307. “Neuter” nouns not in possessive
308. Objective case
309. Objective with infinitive
310. Objective after infinitive
Agreement
311. This kind
312. Pronoun with antecedent
313. Verb with subject
314. Verb with each, none
315. Compound subject
316. Nouns with or
317. Collective nouns
318. Incorrect attraction
319. There is, there are
320. Besides, with
321. Nearer of two nouns
322. Who, which
323. Not with predicated noun
324. Don’t
325. Past and past participle
326. Correct principal parts
327. Lie-lay, sit-set, rise-raise
Shall and Will
328. Shall and will
329. Should and would
330. Questions
331. Determination
332. Parallel tenses
333. Universal present
334. Subordinate clause
335. Infinitive
336. Adverb of time
337. Contrary to fact subjunctive
338. Have, not of
339. Had ought
Fragments
340. Fragments
341. Phrases
342. Participial phrases
343. Clauses
344. Part of compound subject
345. Part of compound predicate
Incomplete Constructions
346. Unfinished construction
347. Give verb subject
348. Insert word
349. Insert material
350. Elements without construction
351. Insert that after say, feel
352. Insert that of
353. Insert as after positive adjective
354. Insert much after very
355. Repeat verb
356. Repeat auxiliary
357. Repeat is, was
358. Repeat verb after auxiliaries
Inaccurate Constructions
359. Correct conjunction
360. Insert transitional element
361. Shifted construction
362. One of the most
363. Exact predication
364. Idiomatic verb
365. Idiomatic preposition
366. Different preposition
367. Idiom
368. Awkwardness
369. Is where, is when
370. Is because
371. The fact that
372. Due to, owing to
373. Because of, on account of
374. Omit and
375. Omit irrelevancy
376. Redundant that
377. Change participial phrase
378. Of-phrase with verbal noun
379. Of-phrase with abstract verbal noun
380. Separate main clauses
381. Join elements with and
382. Join clauses with and
383. Modifiers together
384. Double negative
385. Or, not nor
386. Not hardly
387. Adverb, not adjective
388. Predicated adjectives
389. Who, which, that
Sentence Clearness
400. Obvious antecedent
401. Position of pronoun
402. Ambiguous antecedent in indirect discourse
403. Antecedent in parentheses
404. Repeat distant noun
405. Unemphatic antecedent
406. Place of only, etc.
407. Place of negative
408. Use of correlatives
409. Place of correlatives
410. Place of subordinate clause
411. Place of relative clause
412. Confused verbs
413. Place of modifiers
414. Co-ordinate modifiers
415. Participial phrases
416. Participle with thus
417. Participle with conjunction
418. Adjective due
419. Gerund prepositional phrase
420. Repeat subordinating conjunction
421. Repeat auxiliary verbs
422. Repeat to with the infinitive
423. Repeat preposition with object
424. Repeat article with noun
425. Repeat possessive with noun
426. Parallel structure
427. Summarizing word
428. Use of and
429. Use of but
430. Comparative degree
431. Superlative degree
432. Shift in person
433. Shift in number
434. Shift in tense
435. Shift in mood
436. Shift in voice
Sentence Vigor
500. Isolate
501. Separate
502. Condense
503. Combine
504. Vary structure
505. Vary beginning
506. Vary length
507. Loose to periodic
508. Striking ending
509. Climax
510. Emphatic position
511. Group related elements
512. Main ideas
513. Subordinate ideas
514. Simplicity
515. Far-fetched synonyms
516. Concreteness
517. Parallel structure
518. Repeat for emphasis
519. Monotonous repetition
520. Tautology
521. Pleonasm
522. Word in double sense
523. Consistent metaphors
524. Incongruous metaphors
525. Rhythm
526. Balanced sentence
527. Vivid predicate
528. Unemphatic passive voice
529. Awkward absolute phrase
530. Successive subordinations
531. Successive but and for clauses
Words
600. See dictionary
601. Words almost alike
602. Exactness
603. New words
604. Verbs as nouns
605. Slang
606. Harmony
607. Poetical words
608. Hackneyed expressions
609. Pretentious expressions
610. Contractions
611. Editorial we
612. Simple pronouns
613. Speaking of husband or wife
614. Illiterate usage
615. Reputable words
616. Present words
617. National words
618. Plural abstract nouns
Spelling
700. Doubling consonants
701. Single consonants
702. Final silent -e
703. -ce and -ge
704. Single consonant after double vowel
705. CEI
706. EI as ī and as ā
707. IE
708. Plurals in vowel and -y
709. Verbs in vowel and -y
710. Plurals in consonants and -y
711. Plurals in -ves
712. Foreign plurals
713. Don’t, won’t, can’t
714. It’s
715. Its, yours, hers
716. Spelling list
Punctuation
Use period after:
800. Declarative and imperative sentences
801. Abbreviations
No period after:
802. Incomplete sentence elements
Use question mark after:
803. Direct questions
804. Doubtful expressions
No question mark after:
805. Indirect questions
Use exclamation point after:
806. Exclamatory expressions
Use commas with:
807. Co-ordinate clauses with and or but
808. Conjunction for
809. Parallel clauses
810. Dependent clause preceding
811. Descriptive clauses
812. Interchangeable adjectives
813. Words, phrases, clauses in series
814. And in a series
815. Confused elements
816. Names in direct address
817. Appositives
818. Geographical names
819. Dates
820. Absolute phrases
821. Interjections and parenthetical expressions
822. Direct quotations
Never use a comma:
823. Between noun and its adjective
824. Around limiting clauses or phrases
825. With series of non-interchangeable adjectives
826. To indicate a pause
827. Before that in indirect discourse
828. Between unjoined main clauses
Use a semicolon between:
829. Unjoined main clauses
830. Clauses joined by however, etc.
831. Long or complicated clauses
Never use a semicolon:
832. Between clauses not co-ordinate
833. After salutation in a letter
Use a colon to introduce:
834. Formal list of words, etc.
Use a hyphen with:
835. Fractions or numbers less than 100
836. Titles of two or more words
837. Divided words
838. Compound adjectives
839. Prefixes like co- etc.
Use a dash with:
840. Broken thought
841. Informal parenthetical material
842. Summarizing expressions
Never use a dash:
843. Instead of a period
844. Instead of a comma
Use quotation marks with:
845. Direct discourse
846. Borrowed material
847. Quotation of more than one paragraph
848. Quotation within quotation
849. Quotation within second quotation
850. Quotation ending with comma or period
Never use quotation marks with:
851. Names of books, etc.
Use an apostrophe:
852. In contractions
853. With singular possessives
854. With plural possessives
Never use an apostrophe:
855. With possessive pronouns
Use parentheses to inclose:
856. Material foreign to unit of composition
857. Confirmatory figures
Never use parentheses to inclose:
858. Cancelled words
Use brackets to inclose:
859. Explanatory material in quotation
860. Practice
Mechanics
900. One side of paper
901. Place of title
902. Blank second line
903. Write legibly
904. Number pages
905. Spacing
906. Divided words
907. Place of hyphen
908. Margins
909. Indention
910. Below last line
911. Underscoring
912. Underscoring for emphasis
913. To indicate footnote
914. Place of footnote
915. No abbreviation
Capitalization
916. Proper nouns and pronouns
917. First word in sentence
918. First word in line of verse
919. Direct quotation
920. Names of social bodies, etc.
921. Reference to Deity
922. I and O
923. Titles of books, etc.
924. Titles with names
925. Names of months, etc.
Figures
926. Word double numbers
927. Word sums in double numbers
928. Number sums in dollars and cents
929. Word sums less than one dollar
930. Word numbers as names
931. Beginning with figures
932. Sums as adjectives
Letters
933. Letter heading
934. Business letter salutation
935. Personal letter salutation
936. Close of business letter
937. Close of personal letter
938. Envelope address
939. Punctuation of address
940. Formal note
941. Signature