Index
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V
References are to paragraph numbers except where specified as table, figure (fig.), or page number (p.). Page numbers in the online edition link directly to terms in the glossary (appendix B).
- v., 8.81, 14.288
- var., 8.122
- vector graphic, defined, p. 904
- vehicles and vessels
- numbers, 9.45
- verbs, 5.95–152
- adjectives as, 5.93
- auxiliary (modal or helping): can, 5.143; contractions with, 5.103; definition, 5.101, 5.142; do, 5.144; have, 5.145; may, might, 5.146; must, 5.147; ought, 5.148; parallel structure in, 5.215; shall, should, 5.149; will, would, 5.150
- be-verbs (be, is, are, was, were, been, being, and am): contractions with, 5.103; forms and tenses, 5.98, 5.151–52; as linking verbs, 5.43, 5.99; noun or pronoun following, 5.17
- conjugation: definition, 5.134; imperative, 5.141; past indicative, 5.124, 5.138; past participles, 5.98, 5.139; past subjunctive, 5.140; present participles, 5.136; present subjunctive, 5.137; verb stem (present indicative), 5.123, 5.135; voice and progressive conjugation, 5.116
- for count nouns, 5.7
- definitions: action and nonaction, 5.95; auxiliary verbs, 5.101, 5.142; conjugation, 5.134; contractions, 5.103; ergative, 5.97; linking (copula or connecting), 5.43, 5.99, 5.167; phrasal, 5.100; phrases of auxiliary plus principal verbs, 5.102, 5.168; principal and auxiliary (modal), 5.101, 5.142; regular and irregular, 5.98; tenses, 5.122; transitive and intransitive, 5.18, 5.96, 5.115, 5.166
- -ed vs. -t for past tense and past participle, 5.98
- indefinite pronouns and, 5.64
- integration of quoted material into text and, 13.12
- as interjections, 5.210
- with measurements, 10.68
- participles and gerunds, 5.108–13
- personal pronouns and, 5.42–43
- phrasal adjectives following, 5.91
- properties: active and passive voice, 5.115; agreement in person and number, 5.131, 5.132; imperative mood, 5.119, 5.141, 5.225; indicative mood, 5.118, 5.121; list of, 5.114; misleading connectives, 5.133; mood, 5.117–20; number, 5.130–31, 5.132; person, 5.129, 5.131; predicate nominative and, 5.132; progressive conjugation and voice, 5.116; subjunctive mood, 5.120–21; tenses (see below)
- singular vs. plural, 5.64
- tenses: definition, 5.122; future, 5.125; future perfect, 5.128; past, 5.98, 5.124, 5.137, 5.138–40; past indicative, 5.124, 5.138; past perfect (pluperfect), 5.127, 5.140; present, 5.123, 5.135–36; present indicative, 5.123, 5.135; present perfect, 5.126
- See also adverbs; infinitives
- vernacular names, 8.127–29
- version control
- archival practices and, 1.107
- in author’s review of electronic manuscript, 2.84
- corrections to journal articles, 1.105
- manuscript submission requirements, 2.5
- multiauthor volume contributions, 2.38
- preprints and, 1.106
- verso pages
- blank after half-title, 1.17
- definition, p. 904
- in folio editions, 14.162
- journal’s last page, 1.76
- page after second half title, 1.45
- proofreading for correct use of, 2.111–12
- in signed signatures, 14.161
- specified on final manuscript for production, 2.72–73
- See also page numbers (folios); pagination; recto pages
- vertical bars in mathematical expressions, 12.18, 12.22, 12.33–34, 12.46, 12.51
- vertical lists
- video blogs, 8.187
- video data, 4.60
- video recordings
- documentation, 14.278–80
- Vietnamese names, 16.86
- virgule. See slash and slashes
- viz., 10.43
- voice (active or passive), 5.18, 5.104, 5.115, 5.188
- volume editor. See editors; editors’ names; manuscript preparation guidelines for authors; multiauthor volumes
- volumes and volume numbers
- documentation of: arabic numerals for, 9.28, 14.154, 14.180; journals, 14.180–81; multivolume works, 14.121–27; page and note numbers with, 14.159, 14.164, 14.186; text citations, 15.22; when to omit vol., 14.158
- front matter in series of volumes, 1.17
- identification of, 1.78
- multivolume works and treatment of, 8.173
- pagination in, 1.76
- See also journals; multivolume works; series of volumes