The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Disenssions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1909 - 337 sayfa |
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... past tense . " Nearly a week ago he had started from Denver , well mounted , and with a light wagon loaded with his baggage . " Properly , " Nearly a week previously . " See SINCE . Agree . Sometimes misused in the sense of admit , thus ...
... past tense . " Nearly a week ago he had started from Denver , well mounted , and with a light wagon loaded with his baggage . " Properly , " Nearly a week previously . " See SINCE . Agree . Sometimes misused in the sense of admit , thus ...
Sayfa 13
... past history , or history , is much to be preferred . What do you know of his history ? " is far better English than " What do you know of his anteced- ents ? " The one is the language of the drawing - room , the other of the bar - room ...
... past history , or history , is much to be preferred . What do you know of his history ? " is far better English than " What do you know of his anteced- ents ? " The one is the language of the drawing - room , the other of the bar - room ...
Sayfa 50
... past ! Those whose life is the shortest live long enough to laugh at one half of it ; the boy despises the infant , the man the boy , the sage both , and the Christian all . " " What a piece of work is man ! how noble in reason ! how ...
... past ! Those whose life is the shortest live long enough to laugh at one half of it ; the boy despises the infant , the man the boy , the sage both , and the Christian all . " " What a piece of work is man ! how noble in reason ! how ...
Sayfa 74
... past participle is often very inelegantly , if not improperly , used thus : " He did not cry out , as some have done , against it , " which should read , " He did not cry out , as some have , against it ” —i . e . , as some have cried ...
... past participle is often very inelegantly , if not improperly , used thus : " He did not cry out , as some have done , against it , " which should read , " He did not cry out , as some have , against it ” —i . e . , as some have cried ...
Sayfa 77
... past participle are respectively ate and eaten . To refined ears the other forms smack of vulgarity , although supported by good authority . " I ate an apple . " eaten dinner . " John ate supper with me . " you have eaten breakfast we ...
... past participle are respectively ate and eaten . To refined ears the other forms smack of vulgarity , although supported by good authority . " I ate an apple . " eaten dinner . " John ate supper with me . " you have eaten breakfast we ...
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adjective adverb American appears authority better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common correct diction Dictionary doubt ellipsis employed England English English language erly error euphonious example expression following sentence frequently gentleman give grammar grammarians Grant White hear idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended John kind lady language Latin less live locution look matter means Metonymy mind mood N. Y. Sun never nice noun object old English one's opinion participle passive persons phrase plural preposition present pronoun proper word qualify rarely reference reflexive pronouns relative relative pronouns rhetoric Richard Grant White rule Sally Brown say properly sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech Story subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism Webster's Dictionary woman word is sometimes York
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Sayfa 205 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."—Cowper.
Sayfa 205 - So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat. Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost."—Milton.
Sayfa 226 - swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote." " Interest and ambition, honor and shame, friendship and enmity, gratitude and revenge, are the prime movers in public transactions.
Sayfa 267 - ' If you should abandon your Penelope and your home for Calypso, ': ' Should you abandon .' ' ' Go not my horse the better, I must become a borrower of the night For a dark hour or twain.' " ' Here had we now our country's
Sayfa 263 - is preached.' In the continuation, the conditional clauses are of a different character, and ' be ' is appropriate : ' But if there be no resurrection from the dead, then is Christ not risen ; and if Christ be not risen, then is
Sayfa 234 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know), Virtue alone is happiness below."—Pope. " The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind.
Sayfa 337 - well-nigh every one who uses the English language. The Orthoepist. A Pronouncing Manual, containing about Four Thousand Five Hundred Words, including a considerable number of the names of Foreign Authors, Artists, etc., that are often mispronounced. Revised and enlarged edition. i8mo. Cloth, $1.25. "It is sufficient commendation of the work to say that for fourteen
Sayfa 118 - So frowned the mighty combatants, that hell Grew darker at their frown." " I saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasted fir; his shield, the rising moon: he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on
Sayfa 233 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! " Young. " Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven
Sayfa 218 - You' is not unfrequently employed, like ' we,' as a representative pronoun. The action is represented with great vividness, when the person or persons addressed may be put forward as the performers: ' There is such an echo among the old ruins and vaults, that if you stamp a little louder than ordinary