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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... Grammar , " Bain's " Composition Grammar , " Quackenbos ' " Composition and Rhetoric , " John Nichol's " English Composition , " William Cobbett's " English Grammar , " Peter Bullions ' " English Grammar , " Goold Brown's " Grammar of ...
... Grammar , " Bain's " Composition Grammar , " Quackenbos ' " Composition and Rhetoric , " John Nichol's " English Composition , " William Cobbett's " English Grammar , " Peter Bullions ' " English Grammar , " Goold Brown's " Grammar of ...
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... grammar and more euphonious to consider else as being an adjective , and to form the possessive by adding the apostrophe and s to the word that else qualifies ; thus , any- body's else , nobody's else , somebody's else . Anyhow . " An ...
... grammar and more euphonious to consider else as being an adjective , and to form the possessive by adding the apostrophe and s to the word that else qualifies ; thus , any- body's else , nobody's else , somebody's else . Anyhow . " An ...
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... grammar , and sense prevail when you write to a blacksmith about shoeing a horse as when you write on the most important subjects . Habit is powerful in all cases ; but its power in this case is truly wonderful . When you write , bear ...
... grammar , and sense prevail when you write to a blacksmith about shoeing a horse as when you write on the most important subjects . Habit is powerful in all cases ; but its power in this case is truly wonderful . When you write , bear ...
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... Grammar , " " have laid down this rule : ' The verb to be has the same case after as before it . ' Macaulay censures the following as a solecism : ' It was him that Horace Wal- pole called a man who never made a bad figure but as an ...
... Grammar , " " have laid down this rule : ' The verb to be has the same case after as before it . ' Macaulay censures the following as a solecism : ' It was him that Horace Wal- pole called a man who never made a bad figure but as an ...
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... grammar , nothing more difficult of decision than are some questions that occur re- specting the right management of this case . The observa- tions that have been made show that possessives before participles are seldom to be approved ...
... grammar , nothing more difficult of decision than are some questions that occur re- specting the right management of this case . The observa- tions that have been made show that possessives before participles are seldom to be approved ...
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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