Index abbreviations, 70–2, 82 acronyms, 73–4 adjectives, 6, 26 adverbs, 27–8 apostrophes, 68–9 application forms, 148, 155–9 articles, 10 autobiography, 7 capital letters, 5 clauses, 21–5, 93–5 dependent, 22 main, 22 clichés, 87 colons, 38 commas, 33–7 comparisons, 84–5 comparative, 84 positive, 84 superlative, 84–5 consonants, 53 conjunctions (connectives), 21–4 contractions, 72 jargon, 86–7 justifying, 136 indirect speech, 49–50 initial letters, 73–4 inverted commas, 46–9 homonyms, 62–3 homophones, 59–62 gerunds, 13 forms, 117–133 full stops, 32–3 essay writing, 99–105, 107 e-mail, 133, 148–9 envelopes, 140 exclamation marks, 40 dashes, 39 derivations, 64 dictionary, 63 direct speech, 46–8 covering letter, 157–8 curriculum vitae CV, 149–55 bibliography, 101 biography, 8 blocking, 136 173