The King's English (2nd ed, 1906)

General Principles
1-8
Familiar and far-fetched words
4
Concrete and abstract expression
5
Circumlocution
6
Short and long words
6
Saxon and Romance words
7
Requirements of different styles
7
Malapropos
8
Neologisms
18
Americanisms
23
Foreign words
26
Formation
37
Slang
47
Individual
53
Mutual
56
Unique
58
Aggravate
59
CHAPTER II. SYNTAX, pp. 60-170
Case
60
Number
65
Comparatives and superlatives
70
Relatives
75-107
Defining and non-defining relative clauses
75
That and who or which
80
And who, and which
85
Case of the relative
93
Miscellaneous uses of the relative
96
It … that
104
Participle and gerund
107
Participles
110
The gerund
116-133
Distinguishing the gerund
116
Omission of the gerund subject
125
Choice between gerund and infinitive
129
Shall and will
133-154
The pure system
134
The coloured-future system
136
The plain-future system
138
Second-person questions
139
Examples of principal sentences
141
Substantive clauses
143
Conditional clauses
149
Indefinite clauses
151
Examples of subordinate clauses
152
Perfect infinitive
154
Conditionals
156
Doubt that
158
Prepositions
161
CHAPTER III. AIRS AND GRACES, pp. 171-218
Certain types of humour
171
Elegant variation
175
Inversion
180-193
Exclamatory
181
Balance
182
In syntactic clauses
187
Negative, and false-emphasis
190
Miscellaneous
191
Archaism
193-200
Occasional
193
Sustained
198
Metaphor
200
Repetition
209
Miscellaneous
213-218
Trite phrases
213
Irony
215
Superlatives without the
216
Cheap originality
217
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, §§ 1-1O
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 and be
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
357
60. Pet Phrases
359
61. Also as conjunction; and &c.
359