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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... Speech , Alexander Bain's English Composition and Rhetoric , Bain's Higher English Grammar , Bain's Composi- tion Grammar , Quackenbos ' Composition and Rhetoric , John Nichol's English Composition , William Cobbett's English Grammar ...
... Speech , Alexander Bain's English Composition and Rhetoric , Bain's Higher English Grammar , Bain's Composi- tion Grammar , Quackenbos ' Composition and Rhetoric , John Nichol's English Composition , William Cobbett's English Grammar ...
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... speeches occasionally aggravated [ provoked ] him worse than he could bear . " " Her movements are either painfully slow or aggra- vatingly [ provokingly ] brusque . " Aggregate . Sometimes misused by lovers of big words in the sense of ...
... speeches occasionally aggravated [ provoked ] him worse than he could bear . " " Her movements are either painfully slow or aggra- vatingly [ provokingly ] brusque . " Aggregate . Sometimes misused by lovers of big words in the sense of ...
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... Speech , vol . i , p . 142 , thus : " The laws of harmony may allow copiousness . . . in parts of a discourse . . . in order that the condensation of other parts may be the more highly appreciated . " If the doctor had written more thor ...
... Speech , vol . i , p . 142 , thus : " The laws of harmony may allow copiousness . . . in parts of a discourse . . . in order that the condensation of other parts may be the more highly appreciated . " If the doctor had written more thor ...
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... speech , especially in following more closely the spelling . This is illustrated by such words as trait , silver , and schedule , which are pronounced in this country according to regular analogy , but have in Great Britain special and ...
... speech , especially in following more closely the spelling . This is illustrated by such words as trait , silver , and schedule , which are pronounced in this country according to regular analogy , but have in Great Britain special and ...
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... speech is given us that we may make ourselves understood , our drawling , however prolonged , is preferable to the nauseous , foggy , mumbling thickness of articulation which characterizes the cockney , and is not unfrequently affected ...
... speech is given us that we may make ourselves understood , our drawling , however prolonged , is preferable to the nauseous , foggy , mumbling thickness of articulation which characterizes the cockney , and is not unfrequently affected ...
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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