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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... correct use of the word , as to adopt means to assume as one's own . Adopt is sometimes so misused that its meaning is in- verted . " Wanted to adopt , " in the heading of advertise- ments , not infrequently is intended to mean that the ...
... correct use of the word , as to adopt means to assume as one's own . Adopt is sometimes so misused that its meaning is in- verted . " Wanted to adopt , " in the heading of advertise- ments , not infrequently is intended to mean that the ...
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... Correctly used thus : " If not anticipated , I shall hereafter make an attempt at a magazine paper on The Philosophy of Point . " - Poe . " The chief portion of Prof. Espy's theory has been anticipated . " - Poe . " I am far from ...
... Correctly used thus : " If not anticipated , I shall hereafter make an attempt at a magazine paper on The Philosophy of Point . " - Poe . " The chief portion of Prof. Espy's theory has been anticipated . " - Poe . " I am far from ...
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... correct . " - N . Y. Times . An English writer says : " In such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case , as , ' any- body else's servant ' ; and some grammarians defend this use of the ...
... correct . " - N . Y. Times . An English writer says : " In such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case , as , ' any- body else's servant ' ; and some grammarians defend this use of the ...
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... correct and classical English . The proper word is apart . " Asperse . This word and its synonyms are employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word denotes an effort made in a particular way to injure . To asperse , is to ...
... correct and classical English . The proper word is apart . " Asperse . This word and its synonyms are employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word denotes an effort made in a particular way to injure . To asperse , is to ...
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... correct . We should say , " A while ago . " See SINCE . Bad cold . Inasmuch as colds are never good , why say a bad cold ? We may talk about slight colds and severe colds , but not about bad colds . Badly . Sometimes inelegantly used ...
... correct . We should say , " A while ago . " See SINCE . Bad cold . Inasmuch as colds are never good , why say a bad cold ? We may talk about slight colds and severe colds , but not about bad colds . Badly . Sometimes inelegantly used ...
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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