That or which, and why : a usage guide for thoughtful writers and editors /
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| Author / Creator: | Jenkins, Evan. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, c2007. |
| Description: | xii, 166 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6284318 |
Table of Contents:
- A vs. An
- A Historic, etc
- Adverb Placement
- Adverse/Averse
- Adviser/Advisor
- Historic/Historical
- Affect/Effect
- Allude/Refer
- Along With Alternate/Alternative
- Antecedents 'As Such' (Transition)
- Assure/Ensure/Insure
- As, Then As As vs
- So As Well As, Too (Starting Sentence)
- AttorneyS General, etc
- The Authorities
- Award/Reward
- Awhile/A While
- Bacterium/Bacteria (Feel)
- Bad/Badly
- Baited/Bated (Breath)
- 'Because' and 'Since'
- Beg the Question
- Beside/BesideS
- Between/Among
- 'Between...and,' Not 'Between...to'
- Between the Cracks Bid, Bid, Bade 'Big of a'
- Borne Out, With an 'E'
- Both Brackets Broadcast, the Verb
- Cardinal/Ordinal
- Numbers Cast, the Verb Center
- Around/On
- Chair/Chairperson
- Cohort 'Collective' Collective Nouns Compare
- To/With Comprise
- Could/Couldn't Care Less
- Criterion/Criteria
- Phenomenon/Phenomena
- Danglers Decimate Declined
- TO Comment Defining Clause See That vs
- Which 'Democratic,' the Adjective
- Difference/Differential
- Different From/Than
- Double Possessive I
- Double Possessive II
- Drag/'Drug'
- Due To Each
- Other/One
- Another Eke Elegant Variation
- Echo Enormity
- Evoke/Invoke
- Precipitate/Precipitous
- Facility False Titles
- Farther/Further
- Feud Fewer/Less
- Five Times Below, 160% Less, etc
- Flaunt/Flout
- Fondle Forbid Make the past tense "forbade."
- 'Former Native' Fortuitous 'From Whence'
- See Whence Fulsome
- Problematic Fused Participle
- 'Off Of'
- Gantlet/Gauntlet
- Stanch/Staunch
- Gerrymander/Jerry
- Built/Jury-Rigged
- Gibe/Jibe
- Gild/Paint the Lily
- (I Am) Good / (I Am)
- Well 'Graduated College'
- Graffito/Graffiti
- Hand Down/Hand Up
- Hanged/Hung
- Have to/Got to
- Head/Head Up
- Heart-Rending/Heart-Wrenching
- He or She, etc. Hold [Down] the Fort
- Home/Hone
- Honored in the Breach 'Human Race'
- See Oddities Hyphens 'If Not'
- Impact, the Verb Implement
- Imply/Infer
- Important/Importantly
- Incidence/Incident/Instance
- Individuals/People/Persons
- In Line/On
- Line, Online 'In Order To'
- In, Up and On Irrelevant (NOT 'Irrevelant') 'Issues'
- Late, as in Dead
- Lend/Loan
- Lie, Lay, and All That 'Lightening'; 'Forecasted'
- Like/Such
- As Like, With a Clause Lion's Share Literally
- Loath/Loathe
- Located/Situated
- Masterful/Masterly
- May/Might
- 'Media,' Plural Me, Myself (Reflexive Pronouns)
- Mondegreen Monies More
- Than/Over
- Myriad Namesake 'Near Miss'
- Neither None, Plural
- Normalcy Notoriety Oddities 'Older Than Him'
- 'To She and I'
- One Of/Among
- With Plural Verb 'One of the Only'
- 'Only,' Placement Of
- Oral/Verbal
- Orient/Orientate
- Partake/Participate/Take
- Part People/Persons
- See Individuals/People/Persons
- Per 'Pleaded Guilty'
- Pole/Post
- Position Police, The Possessive Nouns with Pronouns
- Preposition Ending Sentence Prior
- To/Before
- Rage/Wage
- Ravage/Ravish
- Raveled Sleave, With an 'A'
- A Reader's Potpourri
- The Reason Is That
- Rebut/Refute
- Reference as a Verb
- Regard/Regards
- Reluctant/Reticent
- Remunerate/Renumerate
- Replete Resonate Reverend Sequence of Tenses
- Series: Changing Numbers Series, Run-On
- Serve/Service
- Singular Noun, Plural Pronoun
- Sleight/Slight of Hand
- 'Snuck' Split Infinitive
- Straighten/Straiten
- Suspect/Suspected (adj.)
- Swatch/Swath
- Tautology 'That Of,' Omitted That vs
- Which 'They Each'
- Till/Until Tons Was
- Tortuous/Torturous
- 'To She and I'
- See 'Older Than Him' To...To Toward(s)
- Troopers/Troupers Try
- And/Try To Unique
- Use/Usage
- Wangle/Wrangle
- Weapon(s) Inspector