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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... writer , since Milton , must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said that , if he has brighter paragraphs , he has not better poems . Dryden's performances were always hasty , either excited by some external occasion or ...
... writer , since Milton , must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said that , if he has brighter paragraphs , he has not better poems . Dryden's performances were always hasty , either excited by some external occasion or ...
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... writer says : such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case ; as , anybody else's servant ' ; and some grammarians defend this use of the possessive case , arguing that somebody else is a ...
... writer says : such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case ; as , anybody else's servant ' ; and some grammarians defend this use of the possessive case , arguing that somebody else is a ...
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... writers . At best . Instead of at best and at worst , we should say at the best and at the worst . At last . See AT LENGTH . At least . This adverbial phrase is often misplaced . " The Romans understood liberty at least as well as we ...
... writers . At best . Instead of at best and at worst , we should say at the best and at the worst . At last . See AT LENGTH . At least . This adverbial phrase is often misplaced . " The Romans understood liberty at least as well as we ...
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... writer , as Mrs. , or Miss , or a female Christian name . They are , besides , philological absurdities , because they are fabri- cated on the false assumption that their primaries indicate men . They are , moreover , liable to the ...
... writer , as Mrs. , or Miss , or a female Christian name . They are , besides , philological absurdities , because they are fabri- cated on the false assumption that their primaries indicate men . They are , moreover , liable to the ...
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... writers . There is , however , a tendency in present usage to make the following distinction between them : 1. That beside be used only and always as a preposition , with the original meaning by the side of ; as , to sit beside a ...
... writers . There is , however , a tendency in present usage to make the following distinction between them : 1. That beside be used only and always as a preposition , with the original meaning by the side of ; as , to sit beside a ...
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