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 52
... objects are compared , the comparative , and not the superlative , degree should be used ; thus , " Mary is the older of the two " ; " John is the stronger of the two " ; " Brown is the richer of the two , and the richest man in the ...
... objects are compared , the comparative , and not the superlative , degree should be used ; thus , " Mary is the older of the two " ; " John is the stronger of the two " ; " Brown is the richer of the two , and the richest man in the ...
Sayfa 59
... object to its use on the ground that there can be no such participial adjective , because there is no verb in use from which to form it . We have in use the substantive culture , but , though the dictionaries recognize the verb to ...
... object to its use on the ground that there can be no such participial adjective , because there is no verb in use from which to form it . We have in use the substantive culture , but , though the dictionaries recognize the verb to ...
Sayfa 60
... object to it . Decade means the sum or number of ten . " He put one in each decade to death . " It is used by many good writers nowadays precisely as we use the word century . We can not expect that three decades of equality before the ...
... object to it . Decade means the sum or number of ten . " He put one in each decade to death . " It is used by many good writers nowadays precisely as we use the word century . We can not expect that three decades of equality before the ...
Sayfa 68
... object for confiscation . " Correctly : " The value of land that has resulted from labor is not justly . . an object of confiscation . " Accrue is properly used more in the sense of spontaneous growth . Again : " If the state attempts ...
... object for confiscation . " Correctly : " The value of land that has resulted from labor is not justly . . an object of confiscation . " Accrue is properly used more in the sense of spontaneous growth . Again : " If the state attempts ...
Sayfa 79
... objects . But though both either and neither are strictly applicable to two only , they have been for a very long time used in relation to more than two by many good writers ; and as it is often convenient so to use them , it seems ...
... objects . But though both either and neither are strictly applicable to two only , they have been for a very long time used in relation to more than two by many good writers ; and as it is often convenient so to use them , it seems ...
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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