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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“ If you go there you will be apt to get into trouble . ” Here either likely or liable is the proper word , according to the thought the speaker would convey . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Aren't . A contraction of are not , frequently heard ...
“ If you go there you will be apt to get into trouble . ” Here either likely or liable is the proper word , according to the thought the speaker would convey . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Aren't . A contraction of are not , frequently heard ...
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An expression often heard but not 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 .
An expression often heard but not 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 .
Sayfa 33
In regard to enunciation , the average American will make himself heard and understood , wherever there is difficulty in hearing , far better than the average Briton - not by virtue of vociferation , but on account of his clearer and ...
In regard to enunciation , the average American will make himself heard and understood , wherever there is difficulty in hearing , far better than the average Briton - not by virtue of vociferation , but on account of his clearer and ...
Sayfa 39
We have heard of tributary lands and tributary streams , but never before of tributary sympathy . And then the locution , “ To offer sympathy at a calamity ” —what does it mean ? The only advantage of reading Mr. Ralph Waldo Enerson ...
We have heard of tributary lands and tributary streams , but never before of tributary sympathy . And then the locution , “ To offer sympathy at a calamity ” —what does it mean ? The only advantage of reading Mr. Ralph Waldo Enerson ...
Sayfa 44
Nowhere in the United States is such “ questionable grammar as this frequently heard in cultivated circles . + “ It may be confidently affirmed that with good speakers , in the : one character more base than another , it is ...
Nowhere in the United States is such “ questionable grammar as this frequently heard in cultivated circles . + “ It may be confidently affirmed that with good speakers , in the : one character more base than another , it is ...
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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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