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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... proper particle to use is clearly to , and not and . " " And is sometimes improperly used instead of or ; thus , " It is obvious that a language like the Greek and Latin ( language ? ) , etc. , should be , " a language like the Greek or ...
... proper particle to use is clearly to , and not and . " " And is sometimes improperly used instead of or ; thus , " It is obvious that a language like the Greek and Latin ( language ? ) , etc. , should be , " a language like the Greek or ...
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... proper use of anxious : " The office of the Monarch Line of steamships had many callers yesterday . They had friends or relatives on board the Lydian Monarch , and were anxious in regard to their fate . " " Then he was trying his ...
... proper use of anxious : " The office of the Monarch Line of steamships had many callers yesterday . They had friends or relatives on board the Lydian Monarch , and were anxious in regard to their fate . " " Then he was trying his ...
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... proper word to use . " If you go there you will be apt to get into trouble . " Here either likely or liable is the proper word , according to the thought the speaker would convey . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Aren't . A contraction of are ...
... proper word to use . " If you go there you will be apt to get into trouble . " Here either likely or liable is the proper word , according to the thought the speaker would convey . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Aren't . A contraction of are ...
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... proper . See also LIKE . Ascribe . See IMPUTE . Aside . Sometimes misused for apart . " Words have a potency of association aside from their significance as representative signs . " - Dr . William Mathews . " Aside , " says Prof. J. S. ...
... proper . See also LIKE . Ascribe . See IMPUTE . Aside . Sometimes misused for apart . " Words have a potency of association aside from their significance as representative signs . " - Dr . William Mathews . " Aside , " says Prof. J. S. ...
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... proper word to use is rest or remainder . Balance is prop- erly used in speaking of accounts - the difference between the debits and the credits . " It sold to them by the square foot land which [ that ] it had bought at acre prices ...
... proper word to use is rest or remainder . Balance is prop- erly used in speaking of accounts - the difference between the debits and the credits . " It sold to them by the square foot land which [ that ] it had bought at acre prices ...
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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