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 Propriety |
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This can not be called a contraction , and how . ever much it may be employed it will still be only a vulgarism . I'm not is the only possible contraction of I am not , and we're not of we are not . Alike .
This can not be called a contraction , and how . ever much it may be employed it will still be only a vulgarism . I'm not is the only possible contraction of I am not , and we're not of we are not . Alike .
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Sometimes used for say by that class of speakers and writers that have little regard for the fitness of the words they employ — that class for whom bigness has more charms than signification . A dispatch from Milwaukee , Wis . , of July ...
Sometimes used for say by that class of speakers and writers that have little regard for the fitness of the words they employ — that class for whom bigness has more charms than signification . A dispatch from Milwaukee , Wis . , of July ...
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“ This means of communication is employed by man alone . ” Dr. Quackenbos should have written , “ By man only . " Alone is always an adjective , and not , like only , some3 times an adverb . It means , apart from others 2 THE VERBALIST ...
“ This means of communication is employed by man alone . ” Dr. Quackenbos should have written , “ By man only . " Alone is always an adjective , and not , like only , some3 times an adverb . It means , apart from others 2 THE VERBALIST ...
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... employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word denotes an effort made in a particular way to injure . To asperse , is to speak slightingly of any one , and to insinuate that he is less worthy than he is generally believed ...
... employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word denotes an effort made in a particular way to injure . To asperse , is to speak slightingly of any one , and to insinuate that he is less worthy than he is generally believed ...
Sayfa 32
... but we do not discriminate so precisely in the meaning of words , nor do we habitually , in either conversation or in writing , express ourselves so gracefully or employ so 9 ) classic a diction , as the English . 32 THE VERBALIST .
... but we do not discriminate so precisely in the meaning of words , nor do we habitually , in either conversation or in writing , express ourselves so gracefully or employ so 9 ) classic a diction , as the English . 32 THE VERBALIST .
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| Başlık | 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 Propriety |
| Yazar | Alfred Ayres |
| Yayıncı | D. Appleton, 1911 |
| Orijinalin kaynağı: | Minnesota Üniversitesi |
| Dijital ortama aktarılmış | 21 Eki 2013 |
| ISBN | 0827436696, 9780827436695 |
| Uzunluk | 337 sayfa |
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