The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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Sayfa 8
... authority for using this word as an adjective . Instead of , " the above statement , " say , " the foregoing statement . " Above is also used very inelegantly for more than ; as , " above a mile , " " above a thousand " ; also , for ...
... authority for using this word as an adjective . Instead of , " the above statement , " say , " the foregoing statement . " Above is also used very inelegantly for more than ; as , " above a mile , " " above a thousand " ; also , for ...
Sayfa 32
... authority of good writers is strong on the side of objective forms . * If this is true in England , it is not true in America . Nowhere in the United States is such " questionable grammar " as this frequently heard in cultivated circles ...
... authority of good writers is strong on the side of objective forms . * If this is true in England , it is not true in America . Nowhere in the United States is such " questionable grammar " as this frequently heard in cultivated circles ...
Sayfa 40
... authority ; it is the call of one who has the authority to give the call ; it is heeded by those who feel themselves bound to attend . " Properly , then , Presi- dent Arthur convokes , not convenes , the Senate . Corporeal - Corporal ...
... authority ; it is the call of one who has the authority to give the call ; it is heeded by those who feel themselves bound to attend . " Properly , then , Presi- dent Arthur convokes , not convenes , the Senate . Corporeal - Corporal ...
Sayfa 42
... ; " Your course , from first to last , is universally deprecated . " But , according to the authorities , the word really means , to endeavor to avert by prayer ; to pray exemption or deliverance from 42 THE VERBALIST .
... ; " Your course , from first to last , is universally deprecated . " But , according to the authorities , the word really means , to endeavor to avert by prayer ; to pray exemption or deliverance from 42 THE VERBALIST .
Sayfa 50
... authority is on the side of always using from , though A may differ with C from D in opinion with regard , say , to the size of the fixed stars . " I differ , as to this matter , from Bishop Lowth . " -Cobbett . Different to is heard ...
... authority is on the side of always using from , though A may differ with C from D in opinion with regard , say , to the size of the fixed stars . " I differ , as to this matter , from Bishop Lowth . " -Cobbett . Different to is heard ...
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adjective adverb American appear authority better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common Composition coördinating correct diction doubt Elizabeth Proctor ellipsis English English Language error euphonious example expression Fitzedward Hall frequently friends gentleman give grammar grammarians hear idiom idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect John kind Knights Templars lady language Latin less lish lived matter means meant Metonymy mind misused mood neuter never nice noun object opinion participle passive persons phrase PLEONASM plural possessive preposition present Professor pronoun proper properly propriety qualify reason reference relative reply Rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown sense sentence simply singular solecism speak speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous syllable synonym taste tence tense term thing thou thought tion tive tongue Townsend truth unfrequently usage utter verb vulgar woman word is sometimes