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Tables of Contents for The King's English
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Introduction by Matthew Parris
xv
PART I
CHAPTER I VOCABULARY
General Principles
1
6
Familiar and far fetched words
4
1
Concrete and abstract expression
4
1
Circumlocution
5
1
Short and long words
6
1
Saxon and Romance words
6
1
Requirements of different styles
7
67
Malaprops
7
11
Neologisms
18
5
Americanisms
23
3
Foreign words
26
10
Formation
36
11
Slang
47
5
Individual
52
2
Mutual
54
3
Unique
57
1
Aggravate
57
2
CHAPTER II SYNTAX
Case
59
5
Number
64
5
Comparatives and superlatives
69
5
Relatives
74
28
Defining and non defining relative clauses
74
4
That and who or which
78
5
And who, and which
83
8
Case of the relative
91
3
Miscellaneous uses of the relative
94
20
It that
102
4
Participle and gerund
106
2
Participles
108
6
The gerund
114
18
Distinguishing the gerund
114
9
Omission of the gerund subject
123
4
Choice between gerund and infinitive
127
5
Shall and will
132
21
The pure system
134
1
The coloured future system
135
1
The plain future system
136
2
Second person questions
138
1
Examples of principal sentences
139
4
Substantival clauses
143
5
Conditional clauses
148
1
Indefinite clauses
149
2
Examples of subordinate clauses
151
28
Perfect infinitive
153
1
Conditionals
154
3
Doubt that
157
2
Prepositions
159
11
CHAPTER III AIRS AND GRACES
Certain types of humour
170
4
Elegant variation
174
5
Inversion
179
13
Exclamatory
180
1
Balance
181
5
In syntactic clauses
186
2
Negative, and false emphasis
188
2
Miscellaneous
190
2
Archaism
192
7
Occasional
192
4
Sustained
196
15
Metaphor
199
8
Repetition
207
4
Miscellaneous
211
6
Trite phrases
211
2
Irony
213
1
Superlatives without the
214
1
Cheap originality
215
17
CHAPTER IV PUNCTUATION
General difficulties
217
5
General principles
222
1
The spot plague
223
5
Over stopping
228
3
Under stopping
231
1
Grammar and punctuation
232
1
Substantial clauses
232
27
Subject, &c., and verb
236
3
Adjectival clauses
239
2
Adverbial clauses
241
3
Parenthesis
244
1
Misplaced commas
245
1
Enumeration
246
4
Comma between independent sentences
250
3
Semicolon with subordinate members
253
1
Exclamations and statements
254
1
Exclamations and questions
255
2
Internal question and exclamation marks
257
1
Unaccountable commas
258
4
The colon
259
1
Miscellaneous
260
2
Dashes
262
9
General abuse
262
1
Legitimate uses
263
2
Debatable questions
265
5
Common misuses
270
6
Hyphens
271
5
Quotation marks
276
10
Excessive use
276
2
Order with stops
278
5
Single and double
283
1
Misplaced
283
1
Half quotation
284
2
PART II
EUPHONY
1. Jingles
286
1
2. Alliteration
287
1
3. Repeated prepositions
288
1
4. Sequence of relatives
288
1
5. Sequence of that, &c.
289
1
6. Metrical prose
290
1
7. Sentence accent
290
3
8. Causal as clauses
293
2
9. Wens and hypertrophied members
295
3
10. Careless repetition
298
1
QUOTATION, ETC.
11. Common misquotations
299
1
12. Uncommon misquotations of well known passages
300
1
13. Misquotation of less familiar passages
300
1
14. Misapplied and misunderstood quotations and phrases
301
1
14a. Parvum in multo
302
1
15. Allusion
302
1
16. Incorrect allusion
303
1
17. Dovetailed and adapted quotations and phrases
304
1
18. Trite quotations
305
1
19. Latin abbreviations, &c.
306
1
GRAMMAR
20. Unequal yokefellows and defective double harness
307
2
21. Common parts
309
2
22. The wrong turning
311
1
23. Ellipse in subordinate clauses
312
1
24. Some illegitimate infinitives
313
1
25. `Split' infinitives
314
1
26. Compound passives
315
2
27. Confusion with negatives
317
2
28. Omission of as
319
1
29. Other liberties taken with as
320
1
30. Brachylogy
321
1
31. Between two stools
322
1
32. The impersonal one
323
1
33. Between or
324
1
34. A placed between the adjective and its noun
325
1
35. Do as substitute verb
325
1
36. Fresh starts
326
1
37. Vulgarisms and colloquialisms
326
1
MEANING
38. Tautology
327
1
39. Redundancies
328
1
40. As to whether
329
1
41. Superfluous but and though
330
1
42. If and when
330
1
43. Maltreated idioms
331
3
44. Truisms and contradictions in terms
334
2
45. Double emphasis
336
1
46. `Split' auxiliaries
337
2
47. Overloading
339
1
48. Demonstrative, noun, and participle or adjective
340
1
AMBIGUITY
49. False scent
341
1
50. Misplacement of words
341
1
51. Ambiguous position
342
1
52. Ambiguous enumeration
343
1
STYLE
53. Antics
344
2
54. Journalese
346
1
55. Somewhat, &c.
347
4
56. Clumsy patching
351
1
57. Omission of the conjunction that
352
1
58. Meaningless while
353
1
59. Commercialisms
353
1
60. Pet Phrases
354
1
61. Also as conjunction; and &c.
355
1
62. Anacoluthon
355