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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... careful , per- missible in conversation , though incompatible with digni- fied diction . Anxiety of Mind . See EQUANIMITY OF MIND . Apostrophe . Turning from the person or persons to whom a discourse is addressed and appealing to some ...
... careful , per- missible in conversation , though incompatible with digni- fied diction . Anxiety of Mind . See EQUANIMITY OF MIND . Apostrophe . Turning from the person or persons to whom a discourse is addressed and appealing to some ...
Sayfa 22
... careful speakers , however , generally prefer to use the former . Indeed , there is rarely any good reason for giving the preference to the latter . See also COM- MENCE . Being built . See IS BEING BUILT . Belongings . An old idiomatic ...
... careful speakers , however , generally prefer to use the former . Indeed , there is rarely any good reason for giving the preference to the latter . See also COM- MENCE . Being built . See IS BEING BUILT . Belongings . An old idiomatic ...
Sayfa 28
... careful canvass leaves no doubt but that the nomination , " etc. suppress but . " There is no reasonable doubt but that it is all it professes to be " : suppress but . " The mind no sooner entertains any proposition but it presently ...
... careful canvass leaves no doubt but that the nomination , " etc. suppress but . " There is no reasonable doubt but that it is all it professes to be " : suppress but . " The mind no sooner entertains any proposition but it presently ...
Sayfa 29
... is often used for heading , but , thus used , it is condemned by careful writers . The true mean- ing of caption is a seizure , an arrest . It does not come from a Latin word meaning a head , but from a THE VERBALIST . 29.
... is often used for heading , but , thus used , it is condemned by careful writers . The true mean- ing of caption is a seizure , an arrest . It does not come from a Latin word meaning a head , but from a THE VERBALIST . 29.
Sayfa 30
... careful that neat- ness , grammar , and sense prevail when you write to a blacksmith about shoeing a horse as when you write on the most important subjects . Habit is powerful in all cases ; but its power in this case is truly wonderful ...
... careful that neat- ness , grammar , and sense prevail when you write to a blacksmith about shoeing a horse as when you write on the most important subjects . Habit is powerful in all cases ; but its power in this case is truly wonderful ...
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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