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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... rule : ' The verb to be has the same case after as before it . ' Macaulay cen- sures the following as a solecism : ' It was him that Horace Walpole called a man who never made a bad figure but as an author . ' Thackeray similarly ...
... rule : ' The verb to be has the same case after as before it . ' Macaulay cen- sures the following as a solecism : ' It was him that Horace Walpole called a man who never made a bad figure but as an author . ' Thackeray similarly ...
Sayfa 46
... rule of demand creating supply ' : in strictness , ' De- mand's creating supply . ' ' A petition was presented against the license being granted . ' But for the awkward- ness of extending the possessive to impersonal subjects , it would ...
... rule of demand creating supply ' : in strictness , ' De- mand's creating supply . ' ' A petition was presented against the license being granted . ' But for the awkward- ness of extending the possessive to impersonal subjects , it would ...
Sayfa 60
... rules as he sets forth . There are too many restric- tions upon speech already , and it were better to violate every grammatic and rhetorical dogma than to have our literature hedged around in a dead level of commonplaces . When a man ...
... rules as he sets forth . There are too many restric- tions upon speech already , and it were better to violate every grammatic and rhetorical dogma than to have our literature hedged around in a dead level of commonplaces . When a man ...
Sayfa 76
... rule has ever been given to guide us in our choice between these two forms of the possessive case . Sometimes it is not ma- terial which form is employed ; where , however , it is mate- rial - and it commonly is - we must consider the ...
... rule has ever been given to guide us in our choice between these two forms of the possessive case . Sometimes it is not ma- terial which form is employed ; where , however , it is mate- rial - and it commonly is - we must consider the ...
Sayfa 86
... rule , are the better writers . Equally as well . A redundant form of expression , as any one will see who for a moment considers it . As well , or equally well , expresses quite as much as equally 86 THE VERBALIST . can not get a ...
... rule , are the better writers . Equally as well . A redundant form of expression , as any one will see who for a moment considers it . As well , or equally well , expresses quite as much as equally 86 THE VERBALIST . can not get a ...
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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