EXERCISE 3. NOW TRY YOUR HAND AT CREATING A PARAGRAPH WITH BOTH UNITY...

247, 249as fragments, 161–164parts of, 1–113

U

eight parts in, 1–2definition of, 161kinds of, 161to build sentences, 1UnitySpellingin paragraph, 235–238

W

adding ly, 225in sentences, 116, 145, 152doubling final consonant,Word(s)U.S. Postal Service statechoice ofabbreviations, 206–207228–229to express thought, 128final e before consonant, 226Usage errors“complementing,” 72–73common, 149–230final e before vowel, 225final y preceded by consonant,frequently misspelled,

V

227221–222i before e . . ., 224–225Vague words, 130inexact, 128problems with, 221–230Verb(s), 1, 150of equal rankseven helpful rules of, 224–229conjunction combining, 104actionoften confused, 223–224State abbreviationsdefinition of, 13reduction in number of, 36–37U.S. Postal Service, 206–207direct object with, 45and indirect object with,uselessSubject(s), 150elimination of, 123and predicate, 8–9, 1048vagueand adverbs, 79–80and verbcompound, 150general, 130agreement of, 181–183complete, 5and compound subject, 41Wordiness, 18, 123