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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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 .
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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Accord is sometimes misused for award thus , “ The Queen's prize was accorded to our townsman , ” etc. Accuse . See BLAME IT ON . Acquaintance . See FRIEND . Ad . This abbreviation for the word advertisement is very justly considered a ...
Accord is sometimes misused for award thus , “ The Queen's prize was accorded to our townsman , ” etc. Accuse . See BLAME IT ON . Acquaintance . See FRIEND . Ad . This abbreviation for the word advertisement is very justly considered a ...
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Adopt is sometimes so misused that its meaning is inverted . “ Wanted to adopt , ” in the heading of advertisements , not infrequently is intended to mean that the advertiser wishes to be relieved of the care of a child , not that he ...
Adopt is sometimes so misused that its meaning is inverted . “ Wanted to adopt , ” in the heading of advertisements , not infrequently is intended to mean that the advertiser wishes to be relieved of the care of a child , not that he ...
Sayfa 6
Sometimes misused for previously . Ago can not be used with a past tense . “ Nearly a week ago he had started from Denver , well mounted , and with a light wagon loaded with his baggage . ” Properly , “ Nearly a week previously .
Sometimes misused for previously . Ago can not be used with a past tense . “ Nearly a week ago he had started from Denver , well mounted , and with a light wagon loaded with his baggage . ” Properly , “ Nearly a week previously .
Sayfa 7
Sometimes used for say by that class of speakers and writers that have little regard for the fitness of the words they employ — that class for whom bigness has more charms than signification . A dispatch from Milwaukee , Wis . , of July ...
Sometimes used for say by that class of speakers and writers that have little regard for the fitness of the words they employ — that class for whom bigness has more charms than signification . A dispatch from Milwaukee , Wis . , of July ...
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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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