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, 1911 - 337 sayfa |
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Sayfa 16
... 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 extorted by domestic ...
... 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 extorted by domestic ...
Sayfa 23
... gives a different meaning from that intended . " The house looks as it would look though it had never been painted . ' ' The man moves as he would move though he were tired . ' ' He spoke as he would speak though he was offended ...
... gives a different meaning from that intended . " The house looks as it would look though it had never been painted . ' ' The man moves as he would move though he were tired . ' ' He spoke as he would speak though he was offended ...
Sayfa 35
... give to every syllable of a written word a distinct enunciation ; and the popular habit is to say dic - tion - ar - y , mil - it - ar - y , with a secondary accent on the penultimate , instead of sinking the third syllable , as is so ...
... give to every syllable of a written word a distinct enunciation ; and the popular habit is to say dic - tion - ar - y , mil - it - ar - y , with a secondary accent on the penultimate , instead of sinking the third syllable , as is so ...
Sayfa 36
... give rise to them is palpable even in our handwriting , which , if not uniform with itself , is generally , nevertheless , so unlike common English script as to be readily distinguished from it . · " To the joint operation , then , of ...
... give rise to them is palpable even in our handwriting , which , if not uniform with itself , is generally , nevertheless , so unlike common English script as to be readily distinguished from it . · " To the joint operation , then , of ...
Sayfa 41
... give ' ? " " How much I regret , " says Coleridge , " that so many religious persons of the present day think it necessary to adopt a certain cant of manner and phraseology [ and of tone of voice ] as a token to each other [ one another ] ...
... give ' ? " " How much I regret , " says Coleridge , " that so many religious persons of the present day think it necessary to adopt a certain cant of manner and phraseology [ and of tone of voice ] as a token to each other [ one another ] ...
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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