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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... 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 , or possibly ...
... 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 , or possibly ...
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... Language , Fitz - Edward Hall's Recent Exem- plifications of False Philology , and Modern English , Richard Grant White's Words and Their Uses , Edward S. Gould's Good English , PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION . William Mathews ' Words : iv.
... Language , Fitz - Edward Hall's Recent Exem- plifications of False Philology , and Modern English , Richard Grant White's Words and Their Uses , Edward S. Gould's Good English , PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION . William Mathews ' Words : iv.
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... language , it ought to be that of his own country . - LOCKE . In language the unknown is generally taken for the magnificent . - Richard Grant White . He who has a superlative for everything , wants a meas- ure for the great or small ...
... language , it ought to be that of his own country . - LOCKE . In language the unknown is generally taken for the magnificent . - Richard Grant White . He who has a superlative for everything , wants a meas- ure for the great or small ...
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... language into another are usually more or less adapted- i . e . , altered to suit the taste of the public before which the translation is to be represented . To dramatize is to change the form of a story from the narrative to the ...
... language into another are usually more or less adapted- i . e . , altered to suit the taste of the public before which the translation is to be represented . To dramatize is to change the form of a story from the narrative to the ...
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... language is commonly better written in England than it is in America . Those that think so are counseled o examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold . An ...
... language is commonly better written in England than it is in America . Those that think so are counseled o examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold . An ...
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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