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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... " he looks bad , " " he stood erect . " as , Adjectives sometimes properly qualify other adjectives ; " wide open , " , " " red hot , " " pale blue . " Such sentences as the following are common , yet they THE VERBALIST . 3.
... " he looks bad , " " he stood erect . " as , Adjectives sometimes properly qualify other adjectives ; " wide open , " , " " red hot , " " pale blue . " Such sentences as the following are common , yet they THE VERBALIST . 3.
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... common , yet they are all incorrect : " He was questioned relative [ relatively ] to the matter " ; " I should have done it independent [ inde- pendently ] of that circumstance " ; “ previous [ previously ] to my arrival ...
... common , yet they are all incorrect : " He was questioned relative [ relatively ] to the matter " ; " I should have done it independent [ inde- pendently ] of that circumstance " ; “ previous [ previously ] to my arrival ...
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... common than the use of and for to . Examples : " Come and see me before you go " ; " Try and do what you can for him " ; " Go and see your brother , if you can . " In such THE VERBALIST . II Amount of Perfection. The observant reader of ...
... common than the use of and for to . Examples : " Come and see me before you go " ; " Try and do what you can for him " ; " Go and see your brother , if you can . " In such THE VERBALIST . II Amount of Perfection. The observant reader of ...
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... common to both sexes . Hence , authoress and poetess are superfluous , And they are superfluous , also , in another respect — that they are very rarely used , indeed they hardly can be used , independently of the name 3 THE VERBALIST ...
... common to both sexes . Hence , authoress and poetess are superfluous , And they are superfluous , also , in another respect — that they are very rarely used , indeed they hardly can be used , independently of the name 3 THE VERBALIST ...
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... common consent , a corruption of the word balustrade , the name in architecture of a railing formed of a range of balusters supporting a hand rail or coping . Barbarism . Defined as an offense against good usage , by the use of an ...
... common consent , a corruption of the word balustrade , the name in architecture of a railing formed of a range of balusters supporting a hand rail or coping . Barbarism . Defined as an offense against good usage , by the use of an ...
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