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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... kind in the language . I have gathered the new matter , little by little , during the last five or six years , and I trust that little has escaped me that I ought to have gathered . Of the new matter , there is nothing that is newer ...
... kind in the language . I have gathered the new matter , little by little , during the last five or six years , and I trust that little has escaped me that I ought to have gathered . Of the new matter , there is nothing that is newer ...
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... kind . Anxiety of Mind . See EQUANIMITY OF MIND . Anxious . This word is very often used when desirous would better express the meaning intended . Anxious means full of anxiety ; suffering from suspense or uncertainty ; concerned about ...
... kind . Anxiety of Mind . See EQUANIMITY OF MIND . Anxious . This word is very often used when desirous would better express the meaning intended . Anxious means full of anxiety ; suffering from suspense or uncertainty ; concerned about ...
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... kind of belief , the having [ of ] the least idea of the presence of a thing . " " 6 There is a distinction between the faculties of com- prehension and apprehension . If I take the distance of a fixed star , it is beyond my mind to ...
... kind of belief , the having [ of ] the least idea of the presence of a thing . " " 6 There is a distinction between the faculties of com- prehension and apprehension . If I take the distance of a fixed star , it is beyond my mind to ...
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... kind . An attempt to analyze such a sentence brings to light the elliptical clause that the con- struction always involves , and shows at once the defect . For example : “ The house looks as though it had never been painted . ' ' The ...
... kind . An attempt to analyze such a sentence brings to light the elliptical clause that the con- struction always involves , and shows at once the defect . For example : “ The house looks as though it had never been painted . ' ' The ...
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... kind of sympathy is tributary sympathy ? We have heard of tributary lands and tributary streams , but never before of tributary sympathy . And then the locu- tion , " To offer sympathy at a calamity " -what does it mean ? The only ...
... kind of sympathy is tributary sympathy ? We have heard of tributary lands and tributary streams , but never before of tributary sympathy . And then the locu- tion , " To offer sympathy at a calamity " -what does it mean ? The only ...
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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