Index
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V
References are to paragraph numbers except where specified as table, figure, or page numbers. See also glossary of key terms, pp. 823–40.
- verbs
- as adjectives/adjectives as, 5.95–96
- auxiliary (modal or helping), 5.132–40; can and could, 5.133; definition of, 5.132; do, does, did, and done, 5.134; have, has, and had, 5.135; may and might, 5.136; must, 5.137; ought, 5.138; principal verb compared with, 5.103, 5.160; shall and should, 5.139; will and would, 5.140
- be, 5.141–42
- for collective nouns, 5.8
- conjugation of, 5.124–31; definition of, 5.124; imperative, 5.131; past indicative, 5.128; past participle, 5.129; past subjunctive, 5.130; present indicative, 5.125; present participle, 5.126; present subjunctive, 5.127
- for count nouns, 5.7
- definitions of, 5.97–104; action and nonaction, 5.97; ergative, 5.99; linking (copula or connecting), 5.101, 5.158; phrasal, 5.102, 5.146, 5.160, 5.170; phrases, 5.104, 5.160; principal and auxiliary (modal), 5.103; regular and irregular, 5.100; transitive and intransitive, 5.98–99, 5.112, 5.157
- ed vs. t for past tense and past participle, 5.100
- nouns as, 5.31
- properties of, 5.111–23; active and passive voice, 5.112–13; mood or mode (indicative, imperative, and subjunctive), 5.114, 5.132; number (singular or plural), 5.123; person (first, second, third), 5.122; tenses (see tenses of [below])
- in references to works, 5.116
- vernacular names, 8.136–38
- verso
- definition of, p. 839
- of half title, 1.5–8
- for journal’s last page, 1.167
- pagination and, 1.3
- vertical bars, 14.32–33, 14.50
- vertical lists
- appropriate use of, 6.124
- in paragraph style, 6.128
- punctuation and format of, 6.127
- in sentence style, 6.129
- subdivided items in, 6.130
- vessels and vehicles, 8.124–26, 9.49
- videocassettes, 17.273
- video clips, 1.185, 2.34
- Vietnamese names, 18.84
- virgule. See slash
- voice (active or passive), 5.28, 5.105, 5.112–13, 5.141, 5.179
- volume editor. See editors; editor’s name; manuscripts, author’s responsibilities; multiauthor volumes
- volume numbers
- for collections of inscriptions, 17.257
- definition of, 1.165
- in legal style, 17.282–83
- missing, 17.165
- pagination in, 1.167
- in relation to edition number, 17.79
- in series of volumes, 17.90
- in text citations, 16.110
- year as, 17.166