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, 1896 - 337 sayfa |
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... relative [ relatively ] to the matter ; " I should have done it independent [ inde- pendently ] of that circumstance " ; " previous [ previously ] to my arrival " ; " subsequent [ subsequently ] to the elec- tion . " Such comparatives ...
... relative [ relatively ] to the matter ; " I should have done it independent [ inde- pendently ] of that circumstance " ; " previous [ previously ] to my arrival " ; " subsequent [ subsequently ] to the elec- tion . " Such comparatives ...
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... relative clause , no relative having occurred before , thus : " I have a book , printed at Antwerp , and which was once Adam Smith's . " If the proper relative , that , had been used , it is probable that the writer would not have ...
... relative clause , no relative having occurred before , thus : " I have a book , printed at Antwerp , and which was once Adam Smith's . " If the proper relative , that , had been used , it is probable that the writer would not have ...
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... relatives on board the Lydian Monarch , and were anxious in regard to their fate . " " Then he was trying his ' prentice hand , and was more anxious about the treatment than about the matter . " - Julian Hawthorne , " Naturally she was ...
... relatives on board the Lydian Monarch , and were anxious in regard to their fate . " " Then he was trying his ' prentice hand , and was more anxious about the treatment than about the matter . " - Julian Hawthorne , " Naturally she was ...
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... relative applying to persons or to things . " He offered me the same conditions as he offered you . " " The same conditions that " would be equally proper . See also LIKE . Ascribe . See IMPUTE . Aside . Sometimes misused for apart ...
... relative applying to persons or to things . " He offered me the same conditions as he offered you . " " The same conditions that " would be equally proper . See also LIKE . Ascribe . See IMPUTE . Aside . Sometimes misused for apart ...
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... relatives are placed in the sentence at a distance from their antecedents or verbs or prepositions , the ear gives us ... relative , as , who I saw , to who the office was given , and you see the error at once . But take care ! · ' Whom ...
... relatives are placed in the sentence at a distance from their antecedents or verbs or prepositions , the ear gives us ... relative , as , who I saw , to who the office was given , and you see the error at once . But take care ! · ' Whom ...
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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 heard idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended John kind lady language Latin less 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 subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism Webster's Dictionary woman word is sometimes York