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, 1902 - 337 sayfa |
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... England . " Not only is the a here superfluous , but the sentence is otherwise most clumsily constructed . It is bettered thus : " No figure stronger and stranger than his is described , " etc .; or , " No figure is described in our ...
... England . " Not only is the a here superfluous , but the sentence is otherwise most clumsily constructed . It is bettered thus : " No figure stronger and stranger than his is described , " etc .; or , " No figure is described in our ...
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... England than it is in America . Those that think so are counseled o examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold . An . This form of the indefinite article ...
... England than it is in America . Those that think so are counseled o examine the diction of some of the most noted English critics and essayists , beginning , if they will , with Matthew Arnold . An . This form of the indefinite article ...
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... England it is unknown . Johnson says the verb auction means , “ to sell by auction ” —i . e . , by offering to the high- est bidder . Several prominent auctioneers in New York habitually announce the sale of pictures , statuary , and ...
... England it is unknown . Johnson says the verb auction means , “ to sell by auction ” —i . e . , by offering to the high- est bidder . Several prominent auctioneers in New York habitually announce the sale of pictures , statuary , and ...
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... England , but not to the same extent , though some gross departures from idiomatic propriety , such as different to for different from , are com- mon in England , which none but very ignorant persons would be guilty of in America ...
... England , but not to the same extent , though some gross departures from idiomatic propriety , such as different to for different from , are com- mon in England , which none but very ignorant persons would be guilty of in America ...
Sayfa 33
... England . " - George P. Marsh . 66 ' We have no dialects in this country , either of locality or of caste . In regard to enunciation , the average Ameri- can will make himself heard and understood , wherever there is difficulty in ...
... England . " - George P. Marsh . 66 ' We have no dialects in this country , either of locality or of caste . In regard to enunciation , the average Ameri- can will make himself heard and understood , wherever there is difficulty in ...
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