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Garner’s Modern American Usage
LIST OF ESSAY ENTRIES
This data contains essentially two types of entries: (1) word entries, which discuss
a particular word or set of words; and (2) essay entries, which address larger
questions of usage and style. For ease of reference, the essay entries-whose titles
appear throughout the data in capitals-are listed below.
H. Modification of Adjectives
Ending in -ed
I. Adjectives Ending in -ly
J. Adjectives That Follow the Noun
K. Dates as Adjectives
L. Comparative and Superlative
Adjectives
M. Animal Adjectives
N. Adjectives as Nouns
O. Adjectives as Verbs
P. Nouns as Adjectives
Q. Pronunciation
R. Adjective-Noun Disagreement
ADVERBS
A. Placement of Adverbs
B. Awkward Adverbs
C. Double Adverbs
D. Adjectives or Adverbs After
Linking Verbs
E. Adverbs vs. Adjectives
AE
-AGOG(UE)
-AHOLIC; -AHOLISM
AIRLINESE
ABBREVIATIONS
A. Acronyms and Initialisms
B. Resulting Redundancies
C. Initialese
D. Plurals
-ABLE
A. Choice of -able or -ible
B. Attaching -able to Nouns
C. Attaching -able to Intransitive
Verbs
D. Converting -ate Verbs into -able
Adjectives
E. Dropping or Retaining the
Medial -e-
ABSOLUTE CONSTRUCTIONS
ABSTRACTITIS
ADJECTIVES
A. Definition
B. Uncomparable Adjectives
C. Coordinate Adjectives
D. Proper Names as Adjectives
E. Adjectives vs. Adverbs
F. Past-Participial Adjectives
G. Phrasal or Compound
Adjectives
ALLITERATION
A. Purposeful Examples
B. Accidental Examples
AMERICANISMS AND BRITISHISMS
A. Generally
B. Americanisms Invading BrE
C. Britishisms Invading AmE
D. Related Entries
ANIMAL ADJECTIVES
ANTE-; ANTI-
ANTICIPATORY REFERENCE
APPOSITIVES
ARCHAISMS
A. Generally
B. Mistakes Caused by Archaism
-ATABLE
BACK-FORMATIONS
BE-VERBS
A. Wrongly Omitted in Nonfinite
Uses
B. Circumlocutions with Be-Verbs
C. For say
D. Reduplicative Copula
BI-; SEMI-
BUREAUCRATESE
BURIED VERBS
-C-; -CK-
CANNIBALISM
CAPITALIZATION
A. Generally
B. Overcapitalizing
C. Titles
D. Up-Style Headings
E. All Capitals
F. Small Caps
G. After Colon
H. Names
-CAST
CASUALISMS
A. Generally
B. Changes over Time
C. Shortened Forms
D. Proliferation
-CE; -CY
CENTURY DESCRIPTIONS
CHRONOLOGY
-CIDE
CLASS DISTINCTIONS
CLICHÉS
CO-
A. Hyphenation with
B. Attaching to Noun Phrase
C. When Unnecessary
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
A. Number
B. BrE vs. AmE
COMMERCIALESE
COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES
A. Choice Between Comparative
and Superlative