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The Oxford Guide to English Usage
CONTENTS Table of Contents
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Title Page TITLE
Edition Notice EDITION
Notices NOTICES
Table of Contents CONTENTS
Introduction FRONT_1
Grammatical Terms Used in This Book FRONT_2
Abbreviations FRONT_3
Word Formation
abbreviations
-ability and -ibility
-able and -ible
ae and oe
American spelling
ante- and anti-
-ant or ant
a or an
-ative or -ive
by- prefix
c and ck
capital or small initials
-cede or -ceed
-ce or -se
co- prefix
doubling of final consonant
dropping of silent -e
-efy or -ify
-ei or -ie-
en- or in-
-er and -est
-erous or -rous
final vowels before suffixes
for- and fore-
f to v
-ful suffix
hyphens
-ified or -yfied
in- or un-
i to y
-ize and -ise
l and ll
-ly
-ness
-or and -er
-oul-
-our or -or
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past of verbs, formation of
plural formation
possessive case
-re or -er
re- prefix
silent final consonants
-s suffix
-xion or -ction
-y, -ey, or -ie nouns
-y or -ey adjectives
y or i
-yse or -yze
y to i
Difficult and confusable spellings
Pronunciation
A. General points of pronunciation
a
-age
American pronunciation
-arily
-ed
-edly, -edness
-ein(e)
-eity
-eur
g
-gm
h
-ies