The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions 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 and Company, 1897 |
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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 heard idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended John kind lady language Latin less locution look LOUIS RHEAD 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 seen sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism woman word is sometimes York