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 9
... expected ; as , ' drink deep , ' ' this looks strange , ' ' standing erect . ' “ We have also examples of one adjective qualifying an- other adjective ; as , ' wide open , ' ' red hot , ' ' the pale blue sky . ' Sometimes the ...
... expected ; as , ' drink deep , ' ' this looks strange , ' ' standing erect . ' “ We have also examples of one adjective qualifying an- other adjective ; as , ' wide open , ' ' red hot , ' ' the pale blue sky . ' Sometimes the ...
Sayfa 11
... expected , ' instead of , ' This course of proceeding is different from what I expected ' ; ' I could take no other method of silencing him than the one I took , ' instead of , ' I could take no method of silencing him other than the ...
... expected , ' instead of , ' This course of proceeding is different from what I expected ' ; ' I could take no other method of silencing him than the one I took , ' instead of , ' I could take no method of silencing him other than the ...
Sayfa 53
... expected to perform nothing ; it was , by the Doctor , wished to have ceased to proceed . ' Did not end as it very well might have ended ... ' This would have been correct ; but the Doctor wished to avoid the repetition , and thus he ...
... expected to perform nothing ; it was , by the Doctor , wished to have ceased to proceed . ' Did not end as it very well might have ended ... ' This would have been correct ; but the Doctor wished to avoid the repetition , and thus he ...
Sayfa 108
... expected , it must be in a case like this . I allude to two sentences in the ' Charge of the Reverend Doctor Abercrombie to the Senior Class of the Philadelphia Academy , ' published in 1806 ; which sen- tences have been selected and ...
... expected , it must be in a case like this . I allude to two sentences in the ' Charge of the Reverend Doctor Abercrombie to the Senior Class of the Philadelphia Academy , ' published in 1806 ; which sen- tences have been selected and ...
Sayfa 149
... expected to put himself in the same position . " - Bain's " Composition Grammar . " Pronouns of the Second Person . " Anomalous usages have sprung up in connection with these pronouns . The plural form has almost wholly superseded the ...
... expected to put himself in the same position . " - Bain's " Composition Grammar . " Pronouns of the Second Person . " Anomalous usages have sprung up in connection with these pronouns . The plural form has almost wholly superseded the ...
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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