The Oxford Guide to English Usage

CONTENTS Table of Contents

Title Page TITLE
Edition Notice EDITION
Notices NOTICES
Table of Contents CONTENTS
Introduction FRONT1
Grammatical Terms Used in This Book FRONT2
Abbreviations FRONT3
Word Formation 1.0
abbreviations 1.1
-ability and -ibility 1.2
-able and -ible 1.3
ae and oe 1.4
American spelling 1.5
ante- and anti- 1.6
-ant or ant 1.7
a or an 1.8
-ative or -ive 1.9
by- prefix 1.10
c and ck 1.11
capital or small initials 1.12
-cede or -ceed 1.13
-ce or -se 1.14
co- prefix 1.15
doubling of final consonant 1.16
dropping of silent -e 1.17
-efy or -ify 1.18
-ei or -ie- 1.19
en- or in- 1.20
-er and -est 1.21
-erous or -rous 1.22
final vowels before suffixes 1.23
for- and fore- 1.24
f to v 1.25
-ful suffix 1.26
hyphens 1.27
-ified or -yfied 1.28
in- or un- 1.29
i to y 1.30
-ize and -ise 1.31
l and ll 1.32
-ly 1.33
-ness 1.34
-or and -er 1.35
-oul- 1.36
-our or -or 1.37
past of verbs, formation of 1.38
plural formation 1.39
possessive case 1.40
-re or -er 1.41
re- prefix 1.42
silent final consonants 1.43
-s suffix 1.44
-xion or -ction 1.45
-y, -ey, or -ie nouns 1.46
-y or -ey adjectives 1.47
y or i 1.48
-yse or -yze 1.49
y to i 1.50
Difficult and confusable spellings 1.51
Pronunciation 2.0
A. General points of pronunciation 2.1
a 2.2
-age 2.3
American pronunciation 2.4
-arily 2.5
-ed 2.6
-edly, -edness 2.7
-ein(e) 2.8
-eity 2.9
-eur 2.10