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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... learned to speak with propriety . - JOHNSON . As a man is known by his company , so a man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself . - SWIFT . new and revised EDITION , MUCH ENLARGED DA NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON ...
... learned to speak with propriety . - JOHNSON . As a man is known by his company , so a man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself . - SWIFT . new and revised EDITION , MUCH ENLARGED DA NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON ...
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... . " Jeremy Taylor is a clear and logical long sentence ?! True , our learned rhetorician says so , but he doesn't mean it , He " means , In Jeremy Taylor we find some of 66 THE VERBALIST . tation, or else that an effort is making to ...
... . " Jeremy Taylor is a clear and logical long sentence ?! True , our learned rhetorician says so , but he doesn't mean it , He " means , In Jeremy Taylor we find some of 66 THE VERBALIST . tation, or else that an effort is making to ...
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... learned Professor of Divinity in Yale College deemed it worth while to give a little thought to manner as well as to mat- ter , it is probable that his diction would be very different from what it is ; and if he were to give a few ...
... learned Professor of Divinity in Yale College deemed it worth while to give a little thought to manner as well as to mat- ter , it is probable that his diction would be very different from what it is ; and if he were to give a few ...
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... learned and eloquent Monsignor Capel . See San Francisco Chronicle , June 26 , 1885 : " FIRE . When hand firearms came into use , and very slowly superseded the bow , the musketeer carried a lighted match , and the word of command was ...
... learned and eloquent Monsignor Capel . See San Francisco Chronicle , June 26 , 1885 : " FIRE . When hand firearms came into use , and very slowly superseded the bow , the musketeer carried a lighted match , and the word of command was ...
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... learned one may be , there is a limit to one's knowledge . " Here the word is properly used , but it is not properly used in a sentence such as this : " However could you tell such a story ! " Properly , “ How could you ever , " etc ...
... learned one may be , there is a limit to one's knowledge . " Here the word is properly used , but it is not properly used in a sentence such as this : " However could you tell such a story ! " Properly , “ How could you ever , " etc ...
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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