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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... Young Lincoln would have been almost as likely to anticipate [ foresee ] the marvelous growth of the State , as to foresee his own still more wonderful elevation . " Another point : In all cases like this it is far better to repeat the ...
... Young Lincoln would have been almost as likely to anticipate [ foresee ] the marvelous growth of the State , as to foresee his own still more wonderful elevation . " Another point : In all cases like this it is far better to repeat the ...
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... young Octavius , come , Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius . " " The just avenger of his injured ancestors . " Avocation . Often misused for vocation . Our avoca- tions are the things we do for the love of doing them ; our vocations ...
... young Octavius , come , Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius . " " The just avenger of his injured ancestors . " Avocation . Often misused for vocation . Our avoca- tions are the things we do for the love of doing them ; our vocations ...
Sayfa 33
... starved for frozen , stop for stay , assist for be present , intimate for announce , etc. ( c ) We refuse to follow the British in their arbitrary restriction of the mean- ing of certain words . Thus , a young person THE VERBALIST . 33.
... starved for frozen , stop for stay , assist for be present , intimate for announce , etc. ( c ) We refuse to follow the British in their arbitrary restriction of the mean- ing of certain words . Thus , a young person THE VERBALIST . 33.
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... young person is always a girl in England . The Briton rides in an omnibus , but always drives in a carriage ; and though he will say that he is con- fined to a sick - room or stretched upon a sick - bed , he is horrified at the idea of ...
... young person is always a girl in England . The Briton rides in an omnibus , but always drives in a carriage ; and though he will say that he is con- fined to a sick - room or stretched upon a sick - bed , he is horrified at the idea of ...
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... we apprehend , before lovers will discontinue calling one an- other ' dearest ' at Mr. Ayres's particular request . When an ardent young man addresses his mistress as ' My dearest ་ Maria , ' it does not imply that he has THE VERBALIST .
... we apprehend , before lovers will discontinue calling one an- other ' dearest ' at Mr. Ayres's particular request . When an ardent young man addresses his mistress as ' My dearest ་ Maria , ' it does not imply that he has THE VERBALIST .
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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