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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Sayfa 51
... look at me , ' said a mincing miss at a suburban ' At Home . ' There are mincing misses of the male sex in authorship who are always commencing to . Female authors are seldom caught at this feminine weakness of phrase . The verb ...
... look at me , ' said a mincing miss at a suburban ' At Home . ' There are mincing misses of the male sex in authorship who are always commencing to . Female authors are seldom caught at this feminine weakness of phrase . The verb ...
Sayfa 53
... look of his father . " Confirmed invalid . This phrase is a convenient mode of expressing the idea it conveys , but it is difficult to de- fend , inasmuch as confirmed means strengthened , estab- lished . Congregate together . A ...
... look of his father . " Confirmed invalid . This phrase is a convenient mode of expressing the idea it conveys , but it is difficult to de- fend , inasmuch as confirmed means strengthened , estab- lished . Congregate together . A ...
Sayfa 54
... look upon ] him as being the cleverest man of my acquaintance . " Contemptible . This word is sometimes used for con- temptuous . An old story says that a man once said to Dr. Parr , " Sir , I have a contemptible opinion of you ...
... look upon ] him as being the cleverest man of my acquaintance . " Contemptible . This word is sometimes used for con- temptuous . An old story says that a man once said to Dr. Parr , " Sir , I have a contemptible opinion of you ...
Sayfa 63
... look or from [ by ] the stolid , almost idiotic , ex- pression , " etc. to Deteriorate means , properly , to make or to grow worse , but is sometimes misused in the sense of to take away , detract , to lessen , to depreciate . " Does it ...
... look or from [ by ] the stolid , almost idiotic , ex- pression , " etc. to Deteriorate means , properly , to make or to grow worse , but is sometimes misused in the sense of to take away , detract , to lessen , to depreciate . " Does it ...
Sayfa 68
... look at the sentence at all carefully , we find that , though we supply the ellipses in the most charitable manner possible , the sentence really says : Men would find their mansions more burdened , but would find them with this ...
... look at the sentence at all carefully , we find that , though we supply the ellipses in the most charitable manner possible , the sentence really says : Men would find their mansions more burdened , but would find them with this ...
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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