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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A phrase that opposes contraries is called an antithesis . I see a chief who leads my chosen sons , All armed with points , antitheses , and puns . ” The following are examples : “ Though gentle , yet not dull ; Strong , without rage ...
A phrase that opposes contraries is called an antithesis . I see a chief who leads my chosen sons , All armed with points , antitheses , and puns . ” The following are examples : “ Though gentle , yet not dull ; Strong , without rage ...
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An English writer says : “ In such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case , as , “ anybody ... “ An exceedingly vulgar phrase , " says Professor Mathews , in his Words : Their Use and Abuse .
An English writer says : “ In such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case , as , “ anybody ... “ An exceedingly vulgar phrase , " says Professor Mathews , in his Words : Their Use and Abuse .
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... “ I saw no one at all ” ; “ If he had any desire at all to see me , he would come where I am . ” The at all in sentences like these is superfluous . Yet 1 there are instances in which the phrase is certainly a THE VERBALIST . 23.
... “ I saw no one at all ” ; “ If he had any desire at all to see me , he would come where I am . ” The at all in sentences like these is superfluous . Yet 1 there are instances in which the phrase is certainly a THE VERBALIST . 23.
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there are instances in which the phrase is certainly a very convenient one , and seems to be unobjectionable . It is much used , and by good writers . At auction . This expression is an Americanism ; in England it is unknown .
there are instances in which the phrase is certainly a very convenient one , and seems to be unobjectionable . It is much used , and by good writers . At auction . This expression is an Americanism ; in England it is unknown .
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It is never defensible save in the phrase “ beastly drunk . ” Beau . A word used by the uneducated instead of to escort . - De Vere . Been to . We not infrequently hear a superfluous to tacked to a sentence ; thus , “ Where have you ...
It is never defensible save in the phrase “ beastly drunk . ” Beau . A word used by the uneducated instead of to escort . - De Vere . Been to . We not infrequently hear a superfluous to tacked to a sentence ; thus , “ Where have you ...
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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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