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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... Bain's Higher English Grammar , Bain's Composition Grammar , Quackenbos ' Composition and Rhetoric , John Nichol's English Composition , William Cobbett's English Grammar , Peter Bullion's English Grammar , Goold Brown's Grammar of ...
... Bain's Higher English Grammar , Bain's Composition Grammar , Quackenbos ' Composition and Rhetoric , John Nichol's English Composition , William Cobbett's English Grammar , Peter Bullion's English Grammar , Goold Brown's Grammar of ...
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Adjectives are often properly used where the tyro in grammar would expect to find an adverb ; as , “ drink deep , " " this looks strange , " " he looks bad , " " he stood erect . " Adjectives sometimes properly qualify other adjectives ...
Adjectives are often properly used where the tyro in grammar would expect to find an adverb ; as , “ drink deep , " " this looks strange , " " he looks bad , " " he stood erect . " Adjectives sometimes properly qualify other adjectives ...
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It is better grammar and more euphonious to consider else as being an adjective , and to form the possessive by adding the apostrophe and s to the word that else qualifies ; thus , anybody's else , nobody's else , somebody's else .
It is better grammar and more euphonious to consider else as being an adjective , and to form the possessive by adding the apostrophe and s to the word that else qualifies ; thus , anybody's else , nobody's else , somebody's else .
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“ American writers of the first class seem to be , on the whole , rather more careful about grammar than are British Of course , however , nobody denies that the language has suffered some bad treatment here as well as abroad .
“ American writers of the first class seem to be , on the whole , rather more careful about grammar than are British Of course , however , nobody denies that the language has suffered some bad treatment here as well as abroad .
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Be as careful that neatness , grammar , and sense prevail when you write to a blacksmith about shoeing a horse as when you write on the most important subjects . Habit is powerful in all cases ; but its power in this case is truly ...
Be as careful that neatness , grammar , and sense prevail when you write to a blacksmith about shoeing a horse as when you write on the most important subjects . Habit is powerful in all cases ; but its power in this case is truly ...
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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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