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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... practice to those Americans that , after the fashion of the English , pronounce year , yer , here , hyer , and been , bene , though there is no authority for saying anything but yere and here , and little authority for saying anything ...
... practice to those Americans that , after the fashion of the English , pronounce year , yer , here , hyer , and been , bene , though there is no authority for saying anything but yere and here , and little authority for saying anything ...
Sayfa 45
... not me is the usual practice . " - Bain . This , I confi- dently affirm , is not true in America . - A . A. take the possessive form . They prevented him going for- THE VERBALIST . 45 one character more base than another, it is him ...
... not me is the usual practice . " - Bain . This , I confi- dently affirm , is not true in America . - A . A. take the possessive form . They prevented him going for- THE VERBALIST . 45 one character more base than another, it is him ...
Sayfa 125
... practice of our best and most ac- curate writers , and should therefore be abandoned . " 66 “ In the midst of them , ” on the contrary , is good Eng- lish - is an old , elegant , and honored formula of the lan- guage . In respect of ...
... practice of our best and most ac- curate writers , and should therefore be abandoned . " 66 “ In the midst of them , ” on the contrary , is good Eng- lish - is an old , elegant , and honored formula of the lan- guage . In respect of ...
Sayfa 135
... practice of the best authors is in favor of the simple form ; as , " The house is building . ' Wells ' School Grammar , p . 148. Several other expres- sions of this sort now and then occur , such as the new- fangled and most uncouth ...
... practice of the best authors is in favor of the simple form ; as , " The house is building . ' Wells ' School Grammar , p . 148. Several other expres- sions of this sort now and then occur , such as the new- fangled and most uncouth ...
Sayfa 140
... practice of Lord Macaulay and The Atlantic Monthly ? Those who think fit will bow to the dictatorship here prescribed to them ; but there may be those with whom the classic sanction of Southey , Coleridge , and Landor will not be wholly ...
... practice of Lord Macaulay and The Atlantic Monthly ? Those who think fit will bow to the dictatorship here prescribed to them ; but there may be those with whom the classic sanction of Southey , Coleridge , and Landor will not be wholly ...
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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