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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“ Cant is itself properly a double - distilled lie - the second power of a lie . ” — Carlyle . Capable . This word is often improperly used in a passive sense , thus : " Anything capable ( susceptible ) of being salified is salifiable ...
“ Cant is itself properly a double - distilled lie - the second power of a lie . ” — Carlyle . Capable . This word is often improperly used in a passive sense , thus : " Anything capable ( susceptible ) of being salified is salifiable ...
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Here do refers to the state , and is essentially passive or neuter . Yet , to employ it for this purpose is very Dr. Blair , in his twenty - third Lecture , says : ' It is somewhat unfortunate that this number of the Spectator did not ...
Here do refers to the state , and is essentially passive or neuter . Yet , to employ it for this purpose is very Dr. Blair , in his twenty - third Lecture , says : ' It is somewhat unfortunate that this number of the Spectator did not ...
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See PASSIVE . Highfalutin . This is a style of writing often called the freshman style . It is much indulged in by very young men , and by a class of older men that instinctively try to make up in clatter for what they lack in matter .
See PASSIVE . Highfalutin . This is a style of writing often called the freshman style . It is much indulged in by very young men , and by a class of older men that instinctively try to make up in clatter for what they lack in matter .
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House ' ( for ' House of Representatives ' ) ; humbug ; inaugurate ( for ' begin ' ) ; in our midst ; item ( for ' particle , extract , or paragraph ' ) ; is being done , and all passives of this form ; jeopardize ; jubilant ( for ...
House ' ( for ' House of Representatives ' ) ; humbug ; inaugurate ( for ' begin ' ) ; in our midst ; item ( for ' particle , extract , or paragraph ' ) ; is being done , and all passives of this form ; jeopardize ; jubilant ( for ...
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Peter Bullions , in his Grammar of the English Language , says : “ There is properly no passive form , in English , corresponding to the progressive form in the active voice , except where it is made by the participle ing , in a passive ...
Peter Bullions , in his Grammar of the English Language , says : “ There is properly no passive form , in English , corresponding to the progressive form in the active voice , except where it is made by the participle ing , in a passive ...
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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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