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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... question of euphony . Sometimes pleonastic : " No stronger and stranger a figure than his is described in our modern history of England . " Not only is the a here superfluous , but the sentence is otherwise most clumsily constructed ...
... question of euphony . Sometimes pleonastic : " No stronger and stranger a figure than his is described in our modern history of England . " Not only is the a here superfluous , but the sentence is otherwise most clumsily constructed ...
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... questions which occur so constantly between the Porte and foreign governments , and which invariably end in smoke . " -Corr . N. Y. Sun. Only two of these five whiches are necessary , and it would be better to change them to thats ...
... questions which occur so constantly between the Porte and foreign governments , and which invariably end in smoke . " -Corr . N. Y. Sun. Only two of these five whiches are necessary , and it would be better to change them to thats ...
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... questions that occur re- specting the right management of this case . The observa- tions that have been made show that possessives before participles are seldom to be approved . The following ex- ample is manifestly inconsistent with ...
... questions that occur re- specting the right management of this case . The observa- tions that have been made show that possessives before participles are seldom to be approved . The following ex- ample is manifestly inconsistent with ...
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... question . " - John Bright . Directly . The Britons have a way of using this word in the sense of when , as soon as . This is quite foreign to its true meaning , which is , immediately , at once , straight- way . They say , for example ...
... question . " - John Bright . Directly . The Britons have a way of using this word in the sense of when , as soon as . This is quite foreign to its true meaning , which is , immediately , at once , straight- way . They say , for example ...
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... question but these arts . . . will greatly aid him , " etc. - Ibid . , p . 130. Should be that . Nearly all who have been distinguished in literature or oratory have made . . . the generous confession that their attainments have been ...
... question but these arts . . . will greatly aid him , " etc. - Ibid . , p . 130. Should be that . Nearly all who have been distinguished in literature or oratory have made . . . the generous confession that their attainments have been ...
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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