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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... employed it will still be only a vul- garism . I'm not is the only possible contraction of I am not , and we're not of we are not . Alike . This word is often most bunglingly coupled with both . Thus , " These bonnets are both alike ...
... employed it will still be only a vul- garism . I'm not is the only possible contraction of I am not , and we're not of we are not . Alike . This word is often most bunglingly coupled with both . Thus , " These bonnets are both alike ...
Sayfa 7
... employ - that class for whom bigness has more charms than signification . A dispatch from Milwaukee , Wis . , of July 27 , 1884 , to the New York Times , said : " A storm yesterday in Eau Claire County damaged crops and buildings to the ...
... employ - that class for whom bigness has more charms than signification . A dispatch from Milwaukee , Wis . , of July 27 , 1884 , to the New York Times , said : " A storm yesterday in Eau Claire County damaged crops and buildings to the ...
Sayfa 9
... employed by man alone . " Dr. Quackenbos should have written , " By man only . " Alone is always an adjective , and not , like only , some- times an adverb . It means , apart from others 2 THE VERBALIST . 9 to without mentioning ...
... employed by man alone . " Dr. Quackenbos should have written , " By man only . " Alone is always an adjective , and not , like only , some- times an adverb . It means , apart from others 2 THE VERBALIST . 9 to without mentioning ...
Sayfa 22
... employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word denotes an effort made in a particular way to injure . To asperse , is to speak slightingly of any one , and to insinuate that he is less worthy than he is generally believed to be ...
... employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word denotes an effort made in a particular way to injure . To asperse , is to speak slightingly of any one , and to insinuate that he is less worthy than he is generally believed to be ...
Sayfa 32
... do not discriminate so precisely in the mean- ing of words , nor do we habitually , in either conversation or in writing , express ourselves so gracefully or employ so classic a diction , as the English . Our taste 32 THE VERBALIST .
... do not discriminate so precisely in the mean- ing of words , nor do we habitually , in either conversation or in writing , express ourselves so gracefully or employ so classic a diction , as the English . Our taste 32 THE VERBALIST .
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adjective adverb American appears authority better built called careful writers clause Cloth 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 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 seen sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech Story subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste Taxidermy tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism woman word is sometimes York