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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... instance , the product of the playwright's labor is called an adaptation ; in the second , a dramatization . Adjectives ... instances , yet such forms as ' indifferent well , ' ' extreme bad , ' are gram- matical errors . ' He was ...
... instance , the product of the playwright's labor is called an adaptation ; in the second , a dramatization . Adjectives ... instances , yet such forms as ' indifferent well , ' ' extreme bad , ' are gram- matical errors . ' He was ...
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... instances in which the phrase is certainly a very convenient one , and seems to be unobjectionable . It is much used , and by good writers . At best . Instead of at best and at worst , we should say at the best and at the worst . At ...
... instances in which the phrase is certainly a very convenient one , and seems to be unobjectionable . It is much used , and by good writers . At best . Instead of at best and at worst , we should say at the best and at the worst . At ...
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... instances of men's dying around us . ' Say rather , ' Of men dying around us . ' The leading word in sense ought not to be made the ad- junct in construction . " - Goold Brown . Casualty . This word is often heard with the incorrect ...
... instances of men's dying around us . ' Say rather , ' Of men dying around us . ' The leading word in sense ought not to be made the ad- junct in construction . " - Goold Brown . Casualty . This word is often heard with the incorrect ...
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... instances Mr. Gould would not have taken the Dean to task had he known English better . The following are a few of Mr. Gould's corrections in which he is clearly in the right : Paragraph 4. Into another land than " ; should be , " into ...
... instances Mr. Gould would not have taken the Dean to task had he known English better . The following are a few of Mr. Gould's corrections in which he is clearly in the right : Paragraph 4. Into another land than " ; should be , " into ...
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... instance occurs : ' Of nineteen tyrants who started up after the reign of Gallienus , there was not one who enjoyed a life of peace or a natural death . ' Alison , in his ' His- tory of Europe , ' writes : ' Two great sins - one of ...
... instance occurs : ' Of nineteen tyrants who started up after the reign of Gallienus , there was not one who enjoyed a life of peace or a natural death . ' Alison , in his ' His- tory of Europe , ' writes : ' Two great sins - one of ...
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