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 44
... United States is such " questionable grammar " as this frequently heard in cultivated circles . " It may be confidently affirmed that with good speakers , in the one character more base than another , it is him 44 THE VERBALIST .
... United States is such " questionable grammar " as this frequently heard in cultivated circles . " It may be confidently affirmed that with good speakers , in the one character more base than another , it is him 44 THE VERBALIST .
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... speakers make small use of commence in any sense ; they prefer to use its Saxon equivalent , begin . " " " The same persons , " says Godfrey Turner , " who ha- bitually discard the word many , when they have a chance of glorying in ...
... speakers make small use of commence in any sense ; they prefer to use its Saxon equivalent , begin . " " " The same persons , " says Godfrey Turner , " who ha- bitually discard the word many , when they have a chance of glorying in ...
Sayfa 61
... speaker means trying to de- It is when we do not suspect deception that we are ceive . deceived . Decimate . The Latin word from which this word comes , meant , in the olden time , the taking of the tenth , as the taking of every tenth ...
... speaker means trying to de- It is when we do not suspect deception that we are ceive . deceived . Decimate . The Latin word from which this word comes , meant , in the olden time , the taking of the tenth , as the taking of every tenth ...
Sayfa 73
... speakers sometimes err in using these words . Divers means several , sundry , various . " In the frame and constitution of the ecclesiastical polity there are divers ranks and degrees . " 66 Diverse means unlike , different ; as ...
... speakers sometimes err in using these words . Divers means several , sundry , various . " In the frame and constitution of the ecclesiastical polity there are divers ranks and degrees . " 66 Diverse means unlike , different ; as ...
Sayfa 75
... ceased to proceed . Did not end as it very well might have ended . .. ' This would have been correct , but the doctor wished to avoid the repetition , and thus he • fell into bad grammar . Mr. Speaker , I do THE VERBALIST . 75.
... ceased to proceed . Did not end as it very well might have ended . .. ' This would have been correct , but the doctor wished to avoid the repetition , and thus he • fell into bad grammar . Mr. Speaker , I do THE VERBALIST . 75.
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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