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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... . Few vulgarisms are more common than the use of and for to . Examples : " Come and see me before you go " ; " Try and do what you can for him " ; " Go and see your brother , if you can . " In such 14 THE VERBALIST .
... . Few vulgarisms are more common than the use of and for to . Examples : " Come and see me before you go " ; " Try and do what you can for him " ; " Go and see your brother , if you can . " In such 14 THE VERBALIST .
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... common to both sexes . Hence , authoress and poetess are superfluous . And they are superfluous , also , in another respect - that they are very rarely used , indeed they hardly can be used , independently of the name of the writer , as ...
... common to both sexes . Hence , authoress and poetess are superfluous . And they are superfluous , also , in another respect - that they are very rarely used , indeed they hardly can be used , independently of the name of the writer , as ...
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... common . To bring is to convey to or toward a simple act ; to fetch means to go and bring -a compound act ; to carry often implies motion from the speaker , and is followed by away or off , and thus is opposed to bring and fetch . Yet ...
... common . To bring is to convey to or toward a simple act ; to fetch means to go and bring -a compound act ; to carry often implies motion from the speaker , and is followed by away or off , and thus is opposed to bring and fetch . Yet ...
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... common in Eng- land . There is , no doubt , something disagreeably stiff in an anxious and affected conformity to the very letter of or- thography ; and to those accustomed to a more hurried ut- terance we may seem to drawl , when we ...
... common in Eng- land . There is , no doubt , something disagreeably stiff in an anxious and affected conformity to the very letter of or- thography ; and to those accustomed to a more hurried ut- terance we may seem to drawl , when we ...
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... common English script as to be readily distinguished from it . " To the joint operation , then , of these two causes- universal reading and climatic influences - we must ascribe our habit of dwelling upon vowel and diphthongal sounds ...
... common English script as to be readily distinguished from it . " To the joint operation , then , of these two causes- universal reading and climatic influences - we must ascribe our habit of dwelling upon vowel and diphthongal sounds ...
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