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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... given to a question ; a reply , to an assertion . When we are addressed , we an- swer ; when we are accused , we reply . We answer letters , and reply to any arguments , statements , or accusations they may contain . Crabb is in error ...
... given to a question ; a reply , to an assertion . When we are addressed , we an- swer ; when we are accused , we reply . We answer letters , and reply to any arguments , statements , or accusations they may contain . Crabb is in error ...
Sayfa 28
... given us that we may make ourselves understood , our drawling , however prolonged , is preferable to the nauseous , foggy , mumbling thickness of articulation which characterizes the cockney , and is not unfrequently affected by ...
... given us that we may make ourselves understood , our drawling , however prolonged , is preferable to the nauseous , foggy , mumbling thickness of articulation which characterizes the cockney , and is not unfrequently affected by ...
Sayfa 32
... given to . ' In both these cases it should be whom . Bring the verb in the first and the prep- osition in the second case closer to the relative , as , who I saw , to who the office was given , and you see the error at once . But take ...
... given to . ' In both these cases it should be whom . Bring the verb in the first and the prep- osition in the second case closer to the relative , as , who I saw , to who the office was given , and you see the error at once . But take ...
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... Given to whom ? 10. " The chair . " The definite article made it necessary for the writer to specify what particular chair of Sacred Rhetoric he meant . These ten lines are a fair specimen of the diction of the entire volume . Page 131 ...
... Given to whom ? 10. " The chair . " The definite article made it necessary for the writer to specify what particular chair of Sacred Rhetoric he meant . These ten lines are a fair specimen of the diction of the entire volume . Page 131 ...
Sayfa 48
... given in the several classes described that the reader will have 10 a satisfactory 11 survey of the whole subject . What- ever may be said of other portions 12 of the New Testa- ment , we think it will be generally admitted that in this ...
... given in the several classes described that the reader will have 10 a satisfactory 11 survey of the whole subject . What- ever may be said of other portions 12 of the New Testa- ment , we think it will be generally admitted that in this ...
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