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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... thoughts.— WILSON . It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression . - CAMPBELL . Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are com- monly found ...
... thoughts.— WILSON . It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression . - CAMPBELL . Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are com- monly found ...
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... thought that the disease will spread all over [ over all ] Europe within thirty days and then cross the waters of the Atlantic . " - N . Y. World . Allege . Sometimes used for say by that class of speak- ers and writers that have little ...
... thought that the disease will spread all over [ over all ] Europe within thirty days and then cross the waters of the Atlantic . " - N . Y. World . Allege . Sometimes used for say by that class of speak- ers and writers that have little ...
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... thoughts , some of them are only in the way . " " He that writes thoroughly well never uses more words or bigger words than are really necessary . " " Intemperance in the use of language is as much to be censured as intemperance in ...
... thoughts , some of them are only in the way . " " He that writes thoroughly well never uses more words or bigger words than are really necessary . " " Intemperance in the use of language is as much to be censured as intemperance in ...
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... thought the speaker would convey . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Aren't . A contraction of are not , frequently heard , yet never to be preferred to are you not or are they not . Unlike " we're , " " you're , ' " I'm , " " I'll , " " they'll ...
... thought the speaker would convey . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Aren't . A contraction of are not , frequently heard , yet never to be preferred to are you not or are they not . Unlike " we're , " " you're , ' " I'm , " " I'll , " " they'll ...
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... thought , is an Americanism , and is unknown and altogether unexemplified in correct and classical English . The proper word is apart . " Asperse . This word and its synonyms are employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word ...
... thought , is an Americanism , and is unknown and altogether unexemplified in correct and classical English . The proper word is apart . " Asperse . This word and its synonyms are employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word ...
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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