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 8
... cause it to take deep root , and it filled the land . The hills were covered with the shadow of it , and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars . She sent out her boughs unto the sea , and her branches unto the river . Why hast ...
... cause it to take deep root , and it filled the land . The hills were covered with the shadow of it , and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars . She sent out her boughs unto the sea , and her branches unto the river . Why hast ...
Sayfa 12
... cause in itself inevitable , and which has only incidentally and par- tially operated to produce it . " Read , " a cause that in itself is , " and omit which . Here is a sentence from the pen of the most extraordi- nary " whicher " I ...
... cause in itself inevitable , and which has only incidentally and par- tially operated to produce it . " Read , " a cause that in itself is , " and omit which . Here is a sentence from the pen of the most extraordi- nary " whicher " I ...
Sayfa 19
... cause to complain of ill - treatment , this one has . Appreciate means , to estimate justly — to set the true value on men or things , their worth , beauty , or advantages of any sort whatsoever . Thus , an overestimate is no more appre ...
... cause to complain of ill - treatment , this one has . Appreciate means , to estimate justly — to set the true value on men or things , their worth , beauty , or advantages of any sort whatsoever . Thus , an overestimate is no more appre ...
Sayfa 27
... cause of complaint if I can avoid Awful . Persons with only a limited vocabulary at their command frequently use this word when some other word of a less repulsive mien would be chosen by persons of better taste and more culture . A ...
... cause of complaint if I can avoid Awful . Persons with only a limited vocabulary at their command frequently use this word when some other word of a less repulsive mien would be chosen by persons of better taste and more culture . A ...
Sayfa 34
... causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English and the Americans ] are partly physical , and therefore dif- ficult , if not impossible , to resist , and partly owing to a difference of circumstances . Of this latter ...
... causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English and the Americans ] are partly physical , and therefore dif- ficult , if not impossible , to resist , and partly owing to a difference of circumstances . Of this latter ...
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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