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 120
... natural limits is called hyperbole . Language that signifies , literally , more than the exact truth , more than is really in- tended to be represented , by which a thing is represented greater or less , better or worse , than it really ...
... natural limits is called hyperbole . Language that signifies , literally , more than the exact truth , more than is really in- tended to be represented , by which a thing is represented greater or less , better or worse , than it really ...
Sayfa 135
... natural expression is , " The house is building " ' -Prof . J. W. Gibbs . " Mr. Richard Grant White , in his Words and Their Uses , expresses his opinion of the locution is being in this wise : " In bad eminence , at the head of those ...
... natural expression is , " The house is building " ' -Prof . J. W. Gibbs . " Mr. Richard Grant White , in his Words and Their Uses , expresses his opinion of the locution is being in this wise : " In bad eminence , at the head of those ...
Sayfa 142
... natural for a person aiming to express a pas- sive sense to prefix is to the passive concretion being built . † * " I express myself in this manner because I distinguish between be and exist . " + " Samuel Richardson writes : ' Jenny ...
... natural for a person aiming to express a pas- sive sense to prefix is to the passive concretion being built . † * " I express myself in this manner because I distinguish between be and exist . " + " Samuel Richardson writes : ' Jenny ...
Sayfa 143
... natural expression is " The house is building . " ' * all this little or nothing is discernible beyond sheer preju- dice , the prejudice of those who resolve to take their stand against an innovation , regardless of its utility , and ...
... natural expression is " The house is building . " ' * all this little or nothing is discernible beyond sheer preju- dice , the prejudice of those who resolve to take their stand against an innovation , regardless of its utility , and ...
Sayfa 148
... natural ; yet we do not feel that they authorize us to talk of ' the seeingness of the eye , ' ' the understoodness of a sentence , ' or of ' a statement acknowl- edgedly correct . ' ' The now too notorious fact ' is toler- able ; but ...
... natural ; yet we do not feel that they authorize us to talk of ' the seeingness of the eye , ' ' the understoodness of a sentence , ' or of ' a statement acknowl- edgedly correct . ' ' The now too notorious fact ' is toler- able ; but ...
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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