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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... writers . It is better to say , “ the foregoing or preceding statement , or paragraph . " Such ex- pressions as the above - mentioned , the above referred to , and the above related are perhaps permissible , but the diction would be ...
... writers . It is better to say , “ the foregoing or preceding statement , or paragraph . " Such ex- pressions as the above - mentioned , the above referred to , and the above related are perhaps permissible , but the diction would be ...
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... 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 27 , 1884 , to the New York Times , said : “ A storm ...
... 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 27 , 1884 , to the New York Times , said : “ A storm ...
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... writer would not have blundered . And which , or and that . We frequently see the rela- tive pronoun repeated to the great detriment of the sen- tence , thus : " Mr. Reno owns a mule which [ that ] is now forty - five years old , and ...
... writer would not have blundered . And which , or and that . We frequently see the rela- tive pronoun repeated to the great detriment of the sen- tence , thus : " Mr. Reno owns a mule which [ that ] is now forty - five years old , and ...
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... writers of repute ; but antiquarian , Todd , Hodgson , and some other grammarians insist , should be used only as an adjective . Antithesis . A phrase that opposes contraries is called an antithesis . " I see a chief who leads my chosen ...
... writers of repute ; but antiquarian , Todd , Hodgson , and some other grammarians insist , should be used only as an adjective . Antithesis . A phrase that opposes contraries is called an antithesis . " I see a chief who leads my chosen ...
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... writer says : " In such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case , as , ' any- body else's servant ' ; and some grammarians defend this use of the possessive case , arguing that somebody else is ...
... writer says : " In such phrases as anybody else , and the like , else is often put in the possessive case , as , ' any- body else's servant ' ; and some grammarians defend this use of the possessive case , arguing that somebody else is ...
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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