21st Century Grammar Handbook (37 page)
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Authors: Barbara Ann Kipfer
Punctuation
accent
apostrophe
asterisk
bracket
clause
colon
comma
conjunction
dash
ellipsis
exclamation point
hyphen
parentheses
period
question mark
quotation mark
semicolon
sentence
symbol
Questions
indirect question
interrogative
rhetorical question
Rhetorical devices
irony
metaphor
rhetoric
simile
Rules
agreement
audience
capitalization
dialect
editing
grammar
punctuation
revision
standard English
style
Sentence
compound sentence
indirect quotation
inversion
paragraph
quotation
run-on
Spelling
dictionary
languages
Style
audience
bland writing
clarity
clichés
editing
efficiency
emphasis
grammar
inversion
order of words
parallelism
redundancy
repetition
revision
tone
vocabulary
Symbols
asterisk
emphasis
percent
Typography
bold
italic
lower case
typeface
upper case
Usage
Black English
British English
colloquial
dialect
grammar
jargon
scientific language
slang
standard English
Verbs
active voice
agreement
am
are
auxiliary verb
be
can
clauses
compound predicate
conjugation
could
do
fragment
future tense
gerund
have
imperative
infinitive
inflection
intransitive
irregular verb
is
linking verb
’ll
main verb
may
might
mood
must
’nt
number
participle
passive voice
past tense
plural
predicate
present tense
regular verb
shall
should
split infinitive
tense
transitive
voice
was
wasn’t
were
will
would
Words
compound word
consonant
contraction
homonym
main form
prefix
suffix
syllable
synonym
vowel
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