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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... FRIEND . Ad . This abbreviation for the word advertisement is very justly considered a gross vulgarism . It is doubtful whether it is permissible under any circumstances . Adapt - Dramatize . In speaking and in writing of stage matters ...
... FRIEND . Ad . This abbreviation for the word advertisement is very justly considered a gross vulgarism . It is doubtful whether it is permissible under any circumstances . Adapt - Dramatize . In speaking and in writing of stage matters ...
Sayfa 31
... friends " : say , who . This error is not easy to detect on account of the parenthetical words that follow it . If we drop them , the mistake is very ap- parent ; thus , " For the benefit of those whom were his friends . " " On the ...
... friends " : say , who . This error is not easy to detect on account of the parenthetical words that follow it . If we drop them , the mistake is very ap- parent ; thus , " For the benefit of those whom were his friends . " " On the ...
Sayfa 57
... friend or betray my trust . " We rarely hear the word alternate or any of its derivatives correctly pronounced . Elder . See OLDER . Elegant . Professor Proctor says : " If you say to an American , ' This is a fine morning , ' he is ...
... friend or betray my trust . " We rarely hear the word alternate or any of its derivatives correctly pronounced . Elder . See OLDER . Elegant . Professor Proctor says : " If you say to an American , ' This is a fine morning , ' he is ...
Sayfa 66
... friends by the score . No man knows whether he has any friends or not until he has " their adoption tried " ; hence , he who is desirous to call things by their right names will , as a rule , use the word acquaintance instead of friend ...
... friends by the score . No man knows whether he has any friends or not until he has " their adoption tried " ; hence , he who is desirous to call things by their right names will , as a rule , use the word acquaintance instead of friend ...
Sayfa 67
... FRIEND of the first man in the land , and that , too , when he is , perhaps , a comparative stranger and asking a favor . Galsome . Here is a good , sonorous Anglo - Saxon word -meaning malignant , venomous , churlish - that has fallen ...
... FRIEND of the first man in the land , and that , too , when he is , perhaps , a comparative stranger and asking a favor . Galsome . Here is a good , sonorous Anglo - Saxon word -meaning malignant , venomous , churlish - that has fallen ...
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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