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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Sayfa 18
An English writer says : “ In such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case , as , “ anybody else's servant ' ; and some grammarians defend this use of the possessive case , arguing that somebody ...
An English writer says : “ In such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case , as , “ anybody else's servant ' ; and some grammarians defend this use of the possessive case , arguing that somebody ...
Sayfa 45
When shall we put nouns ( or pronouns ) preceding verbal , or participial , nouns , as they are called by some grammarians - infinitives in ing , as they are called by others in the possessive case ? “ I am surprised at John's ( or his ...
When shall we put nouns ( or pronouns ) preceding verbal , or participial , nouns , as they are called by some grammarians - infinitives in ing , as they are called by others in the possessive case ? “ I am surprised at John's ( or his ...
Sayfa 46
The postake the possessive form . “ They prevented him going forward ' : better , ' They prevented his going forward . ' ' He was dismissed without any reason being assigned . ' ' The boy died through his clothes being burned .
The postake the possessive form . “ They prevented him going forward ' : better , ' They prevented his going forward . ' ' He was dismissed without any reason being assigned . ' ' The boy died through his clothes being burned .
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 76
No precise rule has ever been given to guide us in our choice between these two forms of the possessive case . Sometimes it is not material which form is employed ; where , however , it is material - and it commonly is — we must ...
No precise rule has ever been given to guide us in our choice between these two forms of the possessive case . Sometimes it is not material which form is employed ; where , however , it is material - and it commonly is — we must ...
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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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