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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... Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress , etc. Fables and parables are short allegories . Allow . This word is frequently misused in the West and South , where it is made to do service for think ; to be of opinion ; to admit .
... Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress , etc. Fables and parables are short allegories . Allow . This word is frequently misused in the West and South , where it is made to do service for think ; to be of opinion ; to admit .
Sayfa 11
There are not a few that , in their prepossession for everything transatlantic , seem to be of opinion that the English language is commonly better written in England than it is in America . Those that think so are counseled o examine ...
There are not a few that , in their prepossession for everything transatlantic , seem to be of opinion that the English language is commonly better written in England than it is in America . Those that think so are counseled o examine ...
Sayfa 46
The observations that have been made show that possessives before participles are seldom to be approved . The following example is manifestly inconsistent with itself , and , in my opinion , the three possessives are all wrong : ' 45 ...
The observations that have been made show that possessives before participles are seldom to be approved . The following example is manifestly inconsistent with itself , and , in my opinion , the three possessives are all wrong : ' 45 ...
Sayfa 47
opinion , the three possessives are all wrong : ' The kitchen , too , now begins to give dreadful note of preparation ; not from armorers accomplishing the knights , but from the shopmaid's chopping forcemeat , the apprentice's cleaning ...
opinion , the three possessives are all wrong : ' The kitchen , too , now begins to give dreadful note of preparation ; not from armorers accomplishing the knights , but from the shopmaid's chopping forcemeat , the apprentice's cleaning ...
Sayfa 54
does not surprise me , " returned the doctor ; opinions are contemptible . ... himself in terms of abhorrence of a piece of baseness and treachery , the delinquent said , Well , sir , perhaps some day you may change your opinion of me .
does not surprise me , " returned the doctor ; opinions are contemptible . ... himself in terms of abhorrence of a piece of baseness and treachery , the delinquent said , Well , sir , perhaps some day you may change your opinion of me .
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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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