CHAPTER IV. PUNCTUATION, pp. 219-290
General difficulties 219
General principles 224
The spot plague 226
Over-stopping 231
Under-stopping 234
Grammar and punctuation 235-263
Substantival clauses 235
Subject, &c., and verb 239
Adjectival clauses 242
Adverbial clauses 244
Parenthesis 247
Misplaced commas 248
Enumeration 250
Comma between independent sentences 254
Semicolon with subordinate members 257
Exclamations and statements 258
Exclamations and questions 259
Internal question and exclamation marks 261
Unaccountable commas 262
The colon 263
Miscellaneous 264
Dashes 266-275
General abuse 266
Legitimate uses 267
Debatable questions 269
Common misuses 274
Hyphens 275
Quotation marks 280-290
Excessive use 280
Order with stops 282
Single and double 287
Misplaced 288
Half quotation 289
PART II. p. 291 to the end
EUPHONY, §§ 1-10
1. Jingles 291
2. Alliteration 292
3. Repeated prepositions 293
4. Sequence of relatives 293
5. Sequence of _that_, &c. 294
6. Metrical prose 295
7. Sentence accent 295
8. Causal _as_ clauses 298
9. Wens and hypertrophied members 300
10. Careless repetition 303
QUOTATION, &c., §§ 11-19
11. Common misquotations 305
12. Uncommon misquotations of well-known passages 305
13. Misquotation of less familiar passages 306
14. Misapplied and misunderstood quotations and phrases 306
15. Allusion 307
16. Incorrect allusion 308
17. Dovetailed and adapted quotations and phrases 308
18. Trite quotation 310
19. Latin abbreviations, &c. 311
GRAMMAR, §§ 20-37
20. Unequal yokefellows and defective double harness 311
21. Common parts 314
22. The wrong turning 316
23. Ellipse in subordinate clauses 317
24. Some illegitimate infinitives 317
25. Split infinitives 319
26. Compound passives 319
27. Confusion with negatives 321
28. Omission of _as_ 324
29. Other liberties taken with _as_ 324
30. Brachylogy 326
31. Between two stools 327
32. The impersonal _one_ 328
33. _Between ... or_ 328
34. _A_ placed between the adjective and its noun 329
35. _Do_ as substitute verb 330
36. Fresh starts 330
37. Vulgarisms and colloquialisms 331
MEANING, §§ 38-48
38. Tautology 331
39. Redundancies 332
40. _As to whether_ 333
41. Superfluous _but_ and _though_ 334
42. _If and when_ 334
43. Maltreated idioms 336
44. Truisms and contradictions in terms 339
45. Double emphasis 341
46. Split auxiliaries 342
47. Overloading 343
48. Demonstrative, noun, and participle or adjective 344
AMBIGUITY, §§ 49-52
49. False scent 345
50. Misplacement of words 346
51. Ambiguous position 347
52. Ambiguous enumeration 348
STYLE, § 53 to the end
53. Antics 348
54. Journalese 351
55. _Somewhat_, &c. 352
56. Clumsy patching 355
57. Omission of the conjunction _that_ 356
58. Meaningless _while_ 357
59. Commercialisms 358
60. Pet Phrases 359
61. _Also_ as conjunction; and _&c._ 359