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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... euphony . Sometimes pleonastic : " No stronger and stranger a figure than his is described in our modern history of England . " Not only is the a here superfluous , but the sentence is otherwise most clumsily constructed . It is ...
... euphony . Sometimes pleonastic : " No stronger and stranger a figure than his is described in our modern history of England . " Not only is the a here superfluous , but the sentence is otherwise most clumsily constructed . It is ...
Sayfa 45
... euphonious . Euphony with him , in speaking , is a matter of more importance than grammatical correctness . Bescherelle gives many examples of moi in the nominative . Here are two of them : " Mon avocat et moi sommes de cet avis . Qui ...
... euphonious . Euphony with him , in speaking , is a matter of more importance than grammatical correctness . Bescherelle gives many examples of moi in the nominative . Here are two of them : " Mon avocat et moi sommes de cet avis . Qui ...
Sayfa 55
... euphonious than the sentence would be with- out the particle . The meaning is , " We continued to travel on our way . " In such sentences , however , as " Continue on , " " He continued to read on , " " The fever continued on for some ...
... euphonious than the sentence would be with- out the particle . The meaning is , " We continued to travel on our way . " In such sentences , however , as " Continue on , " " He continued to read on , " " The fever continued on for some ...
Sayfa 97
... euphonious . First - rate . There are people that object to this phrase , and yet it is well enough when properly placed , as it is , for example , in such a sentence as this : " He's a ' first - class ' fellow , and I like him first ...
... euphonious . First - rate . There are people that object to this phrase , and yet it is well enough when properly placed , as it is , for example , in such a sentence as this : " He's a ' first - class ' fellow , and I like him first ...
Sayfa 106
... euphonious - as it often is - than got ? " Here is a gentleman who sends his grammatical propo- sition from a place far off in the West : " SIR : The following paragraph is clipped from The Sun of January 30th : " " " Some men say ...
... euphonious - as it often is - than got ? " Here is a gentleman who sends his grammatical propo- sition from a place far off in the West : " SIR : The following paragraph is clipped from The Sun of January 30th : " " " Some men say ...
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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