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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... adverb ; as , " drink deep , " " this looks strange , " " he looks bad , " " he stood erect . " as , Adjectives sometimes properly qualify other adjectives ; " wide open , " , " " red hot , " " pale blue . " Such sentences as the ...
... adverb ; as , " drink deep , " " this looks strange , " " he looks bad , " " he stood erect . " as , Adjectives sometimes properly qualify other adjectives ; " wide open , " , " " red hot , " " pale blue . " Such sentences as the ...
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... adverbs should not be The idea contained in almost is nearness to completion ; the idea contained in nearly is ... adverb . It means , apart from others 2 THE VERBALIST . 9 to without mentioning directly. Allude is now very rarely ...
... adverbs should not be The idea contained in almost is nearness to completion ; the idea contained in nearly is ... adverb . It means , apart from others 2 THE VERBALIST . 9 to without mentioning directly. Allude is now very rarely ...
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... adverb . It means , apart from others ; single ; solitary . " S. was editor of a periodical which [ that ] she intended should have contributions froin her own sex alone " [ only from her own sex ] . " Such characters exist even in this ...
... adverb . It means , apart from others ; single ; solitary . " S. was editor of a periodical which [ that ] she intended should have contributions froin her own sex alone " [ only from her own sex ] . " Such characters exist even in this ...
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... adverbs , have been con- sidered synonymous from an early period of our literature , and have been freely interchanged by our best writers . There is , however , a tendency in present usage to make the following distinction between them ...
... adverbs , have been con- sidered synonymous from an early period of our literature , and have been freely interchanged by our best writers . There is , however , a tendency in present usage to make the following distinction between them ...
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... adverb is misused in the South in a manner that is very apt to excite the risibility of one to whom the peculiar misuse is new . The writer once visited the upper part of New York with a distinguished Southern poet and journalist . It ...
... adverb is misused in the South in a manner that is very apt to excite the risibility of one to whom the peculiar misuse is new . The writer once visited the upper part of New York with a distinguished Southern poet and journalist . It ...
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