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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... Errors of Speech , " Alexander Bain's " English Composition and Rhetoric , " Bain's " Higher English Grammar , " Bain's " Composition Grammar , " Quackenbos ' " Composition and Rhetoric , " John Nichol's " English Composition ...
... Errors of Speech , " Alexander Bain's " English Composition and Rhetoric , " Bain's " Higher English Grammar , " Bain's " Composition Grammar , " Quackenbos ' " Composition and Rhetoric , " John Nichol's " English Composition ...
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... mode of pronouncing them . Errors are not unfrequently made by omitting to repeat the article in a sentence . It should always be repeated when a noun or an adjective referring to a distinct REESE THE OF LISAA LIS UNIVERSITY ...
... mode of pronouncing them . Errors are not unfrequently made by omitting to repeat the article in a sentence . It should always be repeated when a noun or an adjective referring to a distinct REESE THE OF LISAA LIS UNIVERSITY ...
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... of the adjective in certain instances , yet such forms as ' indifferent well , ' ' extreme bad , ' are gram- matical errors . ' He was interrogated relative to that cir- cumstance , ' should be relatively , or in relation THE VERBALIST . 9.
... of the adjective in certain instances , yet such forms as ' indifferent well , ' ' extreme bad , ' are gram- matical errors . ' He was interrogated relative to that cir- cumstance , ' should be relatively , or in relation THE VERBALIST . 9.
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... errors as those men- tioned above . " " ( 3. ) There are cases where the subject is qualified rather than the verb , as with verbs of incomplete predication , ' be- ing , ' ' seeming , ' arriving , ' etc. In the matter seems clear ...
... errors as those men- tioned above . " " ( 3. ) There are cases where the subject is qualified rather than the verb , as with verbs of incomplete predication , ' be- ing , ' ' seeming , ' arriving , ' etc. In the matter seems clear ...
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... error in saying that replies " are used in personal discourse only . " Replies , as well as an- swers , are written . We very properly write , " I have now , I believe , answered all your questions and replied to all your arguments ...
... error in saying that replies " are used in personal discourse only . " Replies , as well as an- swers , are written . We very properly write , " I have now , I believe , answered all your questions and replied to all your arguments ...
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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