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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... Language , Fitz - Edward Hall's Recent Exem- plifications of False Philology , and Modern English , Richard Grant White's Words and Their Uses , Edward S. Gould's Good English , PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION . William Mathews ' Words : iv.
... Language , Fitz - Edward Hall's Recent Exem- plifications of False Philology , and Modern English , Richard Grant White's Words and Their Uses , Edward S. Gould's Good English , PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION . William Mathews ' Words : iv.
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... White . He who has a superlative for everything , wants a meas- ure for the great or small . - Lavater . Inaccurate writing is generally the expression of inac- curate thinking . - RICHARD Grant White . To acquire a few tongues is the ...
... White . He who has a superlative for everything , wants a meas- ure for the great or small . - Lavater . Inaccurate writing is generally the expression of inac- curate thinking . - RICHARD Grant White . To acquire a few tongues is the ...
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... white horse . " If two horses is meant , it is clear that it should be , " He has a black and a white one . " " The creed supposes the coexistence of a benevolent and [ a ] malevolent principle . ” A principle can not be at once ...
... white horse . " If two horses is meant , it is clear that it should be , " He has a black and a white one . " " The creed supposes the coexistence of a benevolent and [ a ] malevolent principle . ” A principle can not be at once ...
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... white for the harvest ' ? Who is not weary of the ding - dong of ' our Zion , ' and the solecism of ' in our midst ' ; and who does not long for a verbal millennium when Christians shall no longer ' feel to take ' and ' grant to give ...
... white for the harvest ' ? Who is not weary of the ding - dong of ' our Zion , ' and the solecism of ' in our midst ' ; and who does not long for a verbal millennium when Christians shall no longer ' feel to take ' and ' grant to give ...
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... White , in his Words and Their Uses , “ is perverted from its true meaning by most of those who use it . " Con- sider means , to meditate , to deliberate , to reflect , to re- volve in the mind ; and yet it is made to do service for ...
... White , in his Words and Their Uses , “ is perverted from its true meaning by most of those who use it . " Con- sider means , to meditate , to deliberate , to reflect , to re- volve in the mind ; and yet it is made to do service for ...
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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