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 52
... nice little handy word , and , like our oppressed it , it is made use of very often when the writer is at a loss for what to put down . To do is to act , and therefore it never can , in any of its ' How do you parts , supply the place ...
... nice little handy word , and , like our oppressed it , it is made use of very often when the writer is at a loss for what to put down . To do is to act , and therefore it never can , in any of its ' How do you parts , supply the place ...
Sayfa 68
... nice person . ' People who would say ' very nice lady ' are not generally of a social class which has much to do with duchesses ; and if you speak of one of these as a ' person , ' you will soon be made to feel your mistake . " Gents ...
... nice person . ' People who would say ' very nice lady ' are not generally of a social class which has much to do with duchesses ; and if you speak of one of these as a ' person , ' you will soon be made to feel your mistake . " Gents ...
Sayfa 111
... nice discrimination worthy of special notice , one of our daily papers recently said : " Miss Jennie Halstead , daughter of the proprietor of the ' Cincinnati Commercial , ' is one of the most brilliant young women in Ohio . " In a late ...
... nice discrimination worthy of special notice , one of our daily papers recently said : " Miss Jennie Halstead , daughter of the proprietor of the ' Cincinnati Commercial , ' is one of the most brilliant young women in Ohio . " In a late ...
Sayfa 128
... nice cheese - cake , a nice tragedy , a nice sermon , a nice day , a nice country , as if a universal deluge of niaiserie - for nice seems origin- ally to have been only niais - had whelmed the whole isl- and . " Nice is as good a word ...
... nice cheese - cake , a nice tragedy , a nice sermon , a nice day , a nice country , as if a universal deluge of niaiserie - for nice seems origin- ally to have been only niais - had whelmed the whole isl- and . " Nice is as good a word ...
Sayfa 168
... nice , real pretty , real angry , real cute , and so on . Recommend . This word , which means to commend or praise to another , to declare worthy of esteem , trust , or favor , is sometimes put to strange uses . Example : " Re- solved ...
... nice , real pretty , real angry , real cute , and so on . Recommend . This word , which means to commend or praise to another , to declare worthy of esteem , trust , or favor , is sometimes put to strange uses . Example : " Re- solved ...
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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