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Slips of Speech Part 49

After than and as, 132.

" the Imperative, 132.

" To be, 131.

" Verbs and Prepositions, 130.

Agreement with Antecedent, 133.

Ambiguity, 135.

Case Forms, 129.

Choice of Relatives, 138.

Collective Nouns, 135.

Interrogatives, 130.

Misplaced Relatives, 141.

Mixed, 136.

Needless, 136.

Omitted Relatives, 141.

Or, Nor, 135.

Parenthetical expressions, 133.

Silent Predicate, 132.

The one, the other, 141.

Uniform Relatives, 137.

Which and who after and, 140.

Pronouns-- Possessive Case, 126.

Pronouns-- Personal and Relative, 129.

Proper Names-- Plurals, 146.

Propose, Purpose, 34.

Proposal, Proposition, 37.

Propose, Contemplate, 75.

Prospectus, Terminus, Apparatus, 148.

Proved, Proven, 38.

Providing, Provided, 37.

Provincialisms, 24.

Pupil, Scholar, 107.

Purity of Diction, 19.

Purpose, Propose, 34.

Quail, Grouse, Woodcock, 149.

Quantity, Number, 38.

Quite, Very, Rather, 153.

Quite a few, 38.

Quit, Leave, 83.

Raise, Grow, Rear, 113.

Rarely, Rare, 42.

Rather than, Other than, 159.

Real, Really, 42.

Real good, 155.

Rear, Raise, Grow, 113.

Reason, Because, 156.

Receipt, Recipe, 42.

Reckon, Guess, Calculate, Allow, 56.

Recollect of, 187.

Redundancy, 185.

Redundant Article, 183.

Redundant Negatives, 195.

Refer to, Allude to, 77.

Region, Neighborhood, 42.

Relieve, Alleviate, 37.

Remainder, Balance, 60.

Remit, Send, 43.

Rent, Lease, Let, Hire, 88.

Repair, Fix, Mend, 62.

Reply, Answer, 32.

Reputation, Character, 44.

Requisite, Requisition, Requirement, 106.

Resemble, Favor, 59.

Residence, House, 43.

Restaurant French, 10.

Revolting, 96.

Reverend, 182.

Riches, Alms, Odds, 145.

Ride, Drive, 76.

Right, Right here, Just here, 99.

Right smart, 73.

Rise up, 192.

Round, Square, 63.

Said, Allowed, 87.

Same as, Same that, 105.

Save, But, Or, Nor, As well as, 201.

Say, Observe, 90.

Says, States, 63.

Scholar, Pupil, 107.

Section, Region, 106.

Seeming Paradox, 191.

Seldom or ever, 106.

Send, Remit, 43.

Seraphim, Cherubim, 142.

Set, Sit, 80.

Settle up, down, 188.

Several, Couple, 76.

Sewage, Sewerage, 106.

Shall, Will, Should, Would, 100.

Shall you? Will you? 102.

She's, He's, It's, 123.

Should, Would, Ought, 102.

Should, Would, Shall, Will, 100.

Shouldn't and Wouldn't, 122.

Sick, Ill, 107.

Sight, Many, 74.

Silent Predicate-- Pronouns, 132.

Single, The first, 79.