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 10
... gives precedent for such 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 ...
... gives precedent for such 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 ...
Sayfa 16
... give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said that , if he has brighter paragraphs , he has not better poems . Dryden's performances were always hasty , either excited by some external occasion or extorted by domestic ...
... give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said that , if he has brighter paragraphs , he has not better poems . Dryden's performances were always hasty , either excited by some external occasion or extorted by domestic ...
Sayfa 26
... give to every syllable of a written word a distinct enunciation ; and the popular habit is to say dic - tion - ar - y , mil - it - ar - y , with a secondary accent on the penultimate , in- stead of sinking the third syllable , as is so ...
... give to every syllable of a written word a distinct enunciation ; and the popular habit is to say dic - tion - ar - y , mil - it - ar - y , with a secondary accent on the penultimate , in- stead of sinking the third syllable , as is so ...
Sayfa 27
... give rise to them is palpable even in our handwriting , which , if not uniform with itself , is gen- erally , nevertheless , so unlike common English script as to be readily distinguished from it . " To the joint operation , then , of ...
... give rise to them is palpable even in our handwriting , which , if not uniform with itself , is gen- erally , nevertheless , so unlike common English script as to be readily distinguished from it . " To the joint operation , then , of ...
Sayfa 29
... give ' ? " " How much I regret , " says Coleridge , " that so many religious persons of the present day think it necessary to adopt a certain cant of manner and phraseology [ and of tone of voice ] as a token to each other [ one another ] ...
... give ' ? " " How much I regret , " says Coleridge , " that so many religious persons of the present day think it necessary to adopt a certain cant of manner and phraseology [ and of tone of voice ] as a token to each other [ one another ] ...
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