The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1881 - 220 sayfa |
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Sayfa 25
... indicative of want of refinement and elegant culture than those we hear in educated society in England . " - George P. Marsh . British against American Orthoëpy . " The causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English ...
... indicative of want of refinement and elegant culture than those we hear in educated society in England . " - George P. Marsh . British against American Orthoëpy . " The causes of the differences in pronunciation [ between the English ...
Sayfa 47
... indicative and ends in the conditional . The words in italics are worse than superfluous . Rewritten : " If the state should attempt to confiscate this increase by means of taxes , either rentals would increase correspondingly , or such ...
... indicative and ends in the conditional . The words in italics are worse than superfluous . Rewritten : " If the state should attempt to confiscate this increase by means of taxes , either rentals would increase correspondingly , or such ...
Sayfa 49
... indicative for the conditional ; 18 , end sentence with the word work ; 19 , introduce also after be ; 20 , in- stead of remain , in the sense of be , use be ; 21 , introduce the after for . As for the last sentence , it reminds one of ...
... indicative for the conditional ; 18 , end sentence with the word work ; 19 , introduce also after be ; 20 , in- stead of remain , in the sense of be , use be ; 21 , introduce the after for . As for the last sentence , it reminds one of ...
Sayfa 84
... Indicative and Subjunctive . " I see the signal , ' is unconditional ; if I see the signal , ' is the same fact ex- pressed in the form of a condition . The one form is said to be in the indicative mood , the mood that simply states or ...
... Indicative and Subjunctive . " I see the signal , ' is unconditional ; if I see the signal , ' is the same fact ex- pressed in the form of a condition . The one form is said to be in the indicative mood , the mood that simply states or ...
Sayfa 182
... indicative forms where the subjunctive might be expected . The tendency appears strongest in the case of ' wert , ' which is now used as indicative ( for ' wast ' ) only in poetical or elevated language . ' The following is the rule ...
... indicative forms where the subjunctive might be expected . The tendency appears strongest in the case of ' wert , ' which is now used as indicative ( for ' wast ' ) only in poetical or elevated language . ' The following is the rule ...
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adjective adverb American appear authority Bain better built called careful writers clause Cobbett comma common Composition coördinating correct diction doubt Elizabeth Proctor ellipsis England English English Language error example expression Fitzedward Hall frequently friends gentleman give grammar grammarians hear hence house is building idiom idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect John kind Knights Templars lady language Latin less lish live matter means meant Metonymy mind misused mood neuter never nice noun object opinion participle passive persons phrase PLEONASM plural possessive preposition present Professor pronoun properly propriety qualify reason reference relative reply Rhetoric Richard Grant White Sally Brown sense simply singular solecism speak speech style subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous syllable synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion tive tongue Townsend truth unfrequently usage utter verb vulgar William Cobbett wise woman word is sometimes
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Sayfa 13 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Sayfa 13 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, < And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Sayfa 113 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Sayfa 160 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Sayfa 16 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Sayfa 141 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Sayfa 187 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.
Sayfa 183 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
Sayfa 127 - I cannot tell, what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be, as live to be In awe of such a thing as I m,yself.
Sayfa 186 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?