Conversation: Its Faults and Its GracesJames Munroe and Company, 1855 - 130 sayfa |
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83 cents active verb adjective adverb altogether avoid BENJAMIN PEIRCE better beware brother character conjunction conversation correct DECEMBER 19 Duke of Bedford Edition ELEMENTARY TREATISE Elements of Logic equally error expression fault feel Francis Bowen GEOMETRY give govern the objective habit hear heard imperfect tense indicative mood infinitive mood intercourse Jalap JAMES MUNROE kind laid language Latin leave less Lindley Murray means mind neuter verb Never pronounce never say never spell nominative noun nounce perhaps person or thing place the accent plural preposition present pronunciation propriety quantity question reading refined relative pronoun rhyme Richard Whately rule Schools sentence slander social society sometimes sound speak speaker speech spirit sympathy talk taste tence thoughts three syllables tion tive to-morrow tongue topic transitive verb true utter vowels vulgar WHATELY'S ELEMENTS words writing written young ladies
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