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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... thoughts.— WILSON FLAGG . It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression . - Campbell . Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are com- monly ...
... thoughts.— WILSON FLAGG . It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression . - Campbell . Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are com- monly ...
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... thought the speaker would convey . to use . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Artist . Of late years this word has been appropriated by the members of so many crafts , that it has wellnigh been despoiled of its meaning . Your cook , your barber ...
... thought the speaker would convey . to use . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Artist . Of late years this word has been appropriated by the members of so many crafts , that it has wellnigh been despoiled of its meaning . Your cook , your barber ...
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... unhappy ' ; ' at least a tear is due to the un- happy ' ; ' a tear is due at least to the unhappy ' ; ' a tear is due to the unhappy at least ' - all express different mean- ings . This can not , often at least , wo thought 20 ...
... unhappy ' ; ' at least a tear is due to the un- happy ' ; ' a tear is due at least to the unhappy ' ; ' a tear is due to the unhappy at least ' - all express different mean- ings . This can not , often at least , wo thought 20 ...
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... thought of their meaning ? Who ever attended a missionary meeting without hearing ' the Macedonian cry , ' and an account of some ' little interest ' and ' fields white for the harvest ' ? Who is not weary of the ding - dong of ' our ...
... thought of their meaning ? Who ever attended a missionary meeting without hearing ' the Macedonian cry , ' and an account of some ' little interest ' and ' fields white for the harvest ' ? Who is not weary of the ding - dong of ' our ...
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... thought were his friends " : say , who . This error is not easy to detect on account of the parenthetical words that follow it . If we drop them , the mistake is very ap- parent ; thus , " For the benefit of those whom were his friends ...
... thought were his friends " : say , who . This error is not easy to detect on account of the parenthetical words that follow it . If we drop them , the mistake is very ap- parent ; thus , " For the benefit of those whom were his friends ...
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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