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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... sentence . It should always be repeated before an adjective that qualifies a distinct thing . " He has a black and white horse . " If two horses is meant , it is clear that it should be , " He has a black and a white one . " " The creed ...
... sentence . It should always be repeated before an adjective that qualifies a distinct thing . " He has a black and white horse . " If two horses is meant , it is clear that it should be , " He has a black and a white one . " " The creed ...
Sayfa 4
... sentences as the following are common , yet they are all incorrect : " He was questioned relative [ relatively ] to the ... sentence like this : " The course ( or measures ) roposed by Mr. Blank was adopted by the committee " ; that is ...
... sentences as the following are common , yet they are all incorrect : " He was questioned relative [ relatively ] to the ... sentence like this : " The course ( or measures ) roposed by Mr. Blank was adopted by the committee " ; that is ...
Sayfa 12
... sentences as these the proper particle to use is clearly to , and not and . " " And is sometimes improperly used instead ... sentence from the pen of the most extraordi- " whicher " I have ever met with : nary 46 The American Consul for ...
... sentences as these the proper particle to use is clearly to , and not and . " " And is sometimes improperly used instead ... sentence from the pen of the most extraordi- " whicher " I have ever met with : nary 46 The American Consul for ...
Sayfa 23
... sentences of a certain kind . An attempt to analyze such a sentence brings to light the elliptical clause that the con- struction always involves , and shows at once the defect . For example : " The house looks as though it had never ...
... sentences of a certain kind . An attempt to analyze such a sentence brings to light the elliptical clause that the con- struction always involves , and shows at once the defect . For example : " The house looks as though it had never ...
Sayfa 28
... sentence ; thus , " Where have you been to ? " Before . Sometimes absurdly used in the sense of rather than . " Death before madness . " - N . Y. Times . This is like the man that died and made a will . Beg . We often see letters begin ...
... sentence ; thus , " Where have you been to ? " Before . Sometimes absurdly used in the sense of rather than . " Death before madness . " - N . Y. Times . This is like the man that died and made a will . Beg . We often see letters begin ...
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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