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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... simply a 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 ...
... simply a 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 ...
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... simply , expect the wagon to arrive " ! 66 Advent should be used of only what is important , stately , or sacred . Affect . See EFFECT . Aggravate . This word is often used when the speaker means to provoke , irritate , or anger . Thus ...
... simply , expect the wagon to arrive " ! 66 Advent should be used of only what is important , stately , or sacred . Affect . See EFFECT . Aggravate . This word is often used when the speaker means to provoke , irritate , or anger . Thus ...
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... simply anticipate on the English of the future . " - Dr . Fitzedward Hall . " The memorial sketch is a model of propriety . The author has carefully refrained from anticipating the biogra- phy that , we trust , will shortly see the ...
... simply anticipate on the English of the future . " - Dr . Fitzedward Hall . " The memorial sketch is a model of propriety . The author has carefully refrained from anticipating the biogra- phy that , we trust , will shortly see the ...
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... simply as elliptical expressions ; as ' the umbrella is somebody's else ' ( i . e . , other than the person previously mentioned ) . ” — Standard Dictionary . Anyhow . " An exceedingly vulgar phrase , " says Pro- fessor Mathews , in his ...
... simply as elliptical expressions ; as ' the umbrella is somebody's else ' ( i . e . , other than the person previously mentioned ) . ” — Standard Dictionary . Anyhow . " An exceedingly vulgar phrase , " says Pro- fessor Mathews , in his ...
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... simply to take an idea into the mind - it is the mind's first effort - while to comprehend is fully to under- stand . We are dull or quick of apprehension . Children apprehend much that they do not comprehend . Trench says , " We ...
... simply to take an idea into the mind - it is the mind's first effort - while to comprehend is fully to under- stand . We are dull or quick of apprehension . Children apprehend much that they do not comprehend . Trench says , " We ...
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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