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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... persons . 46 According to Crabb , the synonyms of allege are adduce , assign , and advance . ' What is adduced tends to corrobo- rate or to invalidate ; what is alleged tends to criminate or to exculpate ; what is assigned tends to ...
... persons . 46 According to Crabb , the synonyms of allege are adduce , assign , and advance . ' What is adduced tends to corrobo- rate or to invalidate ; what is alleged tends to criminate or to exculpate ; what is assigned tends to ...
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... person . It expresses concisely what would other- wise require a rather ponderous circumlocution . Yet the locution past history , or history , is much to be preferred . " What do you know of his history ? " is far better English than ...
... person . It expresses concisely what would other- wise require a rather ponderous circumlocution . Yet the locution past history , or history , is much to be preferred . " What do you know of his history ? " is far better English than ...
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... person is going to say by saying it before him . " - Crabb . 66 But , after all , it may simply anticipate on the English of the future . " - Dr . Fitzedward Hall . " The memorial sketch is a model of propriety . The author has ...
... person is going to say by saying it before him . " - Crabb . 66 But , after all , it may simply anticipate on the English of the future . " - Dr . Fitzedward Hall . " The memorial sketch is a model of propriety . The author has ...
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... person previously mentioned ) . ” — Standard Dictionary . Anyhow . " An exceedingly vulgar phrase , " says Pro- fessor Mathews , in his Words : Their Use and Abuse . " Its use in any manner , by one who professes to write and speak the ...
... person previously mentioned ) . ” — Standard Dictionary . Anyhow . " An exceedingly vulgar phrase , " says Pro- fessor Mathews , in his Words : Their Use and Abuse . " Its use in any manner , by one who professes to write and speak the ...
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... person or persons to whom a discourse is addressed and appealing to some person or thing absent , constitutes what , in rhetoric , is called the apostrophe . The following are some examples : " O gentle sleep , Nature's soft nurse , how ...
... person or persons to whom a discourse is addressed and appealing to some person or thing absent , constitutes what , in rhetoric , is called the apostrophe . The following are some examples : " O gentle sleep , Nature's soft nurse , how ...
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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