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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... Language , " Fitzedward Hall's " Recent Exemplifications of False Philology , " and " Modern English , ' Richard Grant White's " Words and Their Uses , " Edward S. Gould's Good English , " 66 ( ( William Mathews ' Words : their Use and ...
... Language , " Fitzedward Hall's " Recent Exemplifications of False Philology , " and " Modern English , ' Richard Grant White's " Words and Their Uses , " Edward S. Gould's Good English , " 66 ( ( William Mathews ' Words : their Use and ...
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... language , it ought to be that of his own country . - LOCKE . In language the unknown is generally taken for the magnificent . - RICHARD GRANT WHITE . He who has a superlative for everything , wants a meas- ure for the great or small ...
... language , it ought to be that of his own country . - LOCKE . In language the unknown is generally taken for the magnificent . - RICHARD GRANT WHITE . He who has a superlative for everything , wants a meas- ure for the great or small ...
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... language into another are usually more or less adapted ; i . e . , altered to suit the taste of the public before which the translation is to be represented . To dramatize is to change the form of a story from the narrative to the ...
... language into another are usually more or less adapted ; i . e . , altered to suit the taste of the public before which the translation is to be represented . To dramatize is to change the form of a story from the narrative to the ...
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... languages the neuter adjective may be used as an adverb , and the analogy would appear to have been extended to English . " ( 2. ) In the oldest English the adverb was regularly formed from the adjective by adding ' e , ' as ' soft ...
... languages the neuter adjective may be used as an adverb , and the analogy would appear to have been extended to English . " ( 2. ) In the oldest English the adverb was regularly formed from the adjective by adding ' e , ' as ' soft ...
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... language is generally better written in England than it is in America . Those who think so are counseled to examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold ...
... language is generally better written in England than it is in America . Those who think so are counseled to examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold ...
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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