The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words, and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with ProprietyD. Appleton, 1911 - 337 sayfa |
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... examples : " O gentle sleep , Nature's soft nurse , how have I frighted thee , That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down , And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? " Sail on , thou lone imperial bird Of quenchless eye and tireless wing ...
... examples : " O gentle sleep , Nature's soft nurse , how have I frighted thee , That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down , And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? " Sail on , thou lone imperial bird Of quenchless eye and tireless wing ...
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... example . To defame , is openly to advance some serious charge against a person ; to censure maliciously and falsely in public . To slander , is to circulate an evil report , being heedless of its truth . To calumniate , is to fabricate ...
... example . To defame , is openly to advance some serious charge against a person ; to censure maliciously and falsely in public . To slander , is to circulate an evil report , being heedless of its truth . To calumniate , is to fabricate ...
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... example : “ The house looks as though it had never been painted . ' ' The man moves as though he were tired . ' ' He spoke as though he was offended . ' " In all these we quickly discover , on supplying the ellipsis between as and ...
... example : “ The house looks as though it had never been painted . ' ' The man moves as though he were tired . ' ' He spoke as though he was offended . ' " In all these we quickly discover , on supplying the ellipsis between as and ...
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... example is so well calculated to inspire , " etc .; and again , " The first two or three sentences are well calculated , " etc. 46 Calculate is sometimes vulgarly used for intend , purpose , expect ; as , " He calculates to get off to ...
... example is so well calculated to inspire , " etc .; and again , " The first two or three sentences are well calculated , " etc. 46 Calculate is sometimes vulgarly used for intend , purpose , expect ; as , " He calculates to get off to ...
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... examples of moi in the nominative . Here are two of them : " Mon avocat et moi sommes de cet avis . Qui veut aller avec lui ? Moi . " If we use such phraseology as " It is me , " we must do as the French do- consider me as being in the ...
... examples of moi in the nominative . Here are two of them : " Mon avocat et moi sommes de cet avis . Qui veut aller avec lui ? Moi . " If we use such phraseology as " It is me , " we must do as the French do- consider me as being in the ...
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adjective adverb American appears authority better built called careful writers clause 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 idiomatic imperfect tense improperly incorrect intended John kind lady language Latin less live 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 sense simply solecism Sometimes misused speak speakers speech Story subjunctive subjunctive mood superfluous synonym taste tence term thing thou thought tion truth usage verb vulgarism Webster's Dictionary woman word is sometimes York