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 of all classes of society such expressions as ' it was me , ' ' it was him , ' ' it was her , ' more frequently than the prescribed form . * This shy creature , my brother says , is me ' ; ' were it me , I'd show him the ...
... speech of all classes of society such expressions as ' it was me , ' ' it was him , ' ' it was her , ' more frequently than the prescribed form . * This shy creature , my brother says , is me ' ; ' were it me , I'd show him the ...
Sayfa 51
... speech than commence to . Directly I commence to speak every one commences to 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 ...
... speech than commence to . Directly I commence to speak every one commences to 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 ...
Sayfa 60
... speech already , and it were better to violate every grammatic and rhetorical dogma than to have our literature hedged around in a dead level of commonplaces . When a man has an earnest thought , no matter how he blurts it out so that ...
... speech already , and it were better to violate every grammatic and rhetorical dogma than to have our literature hedged around in a dead level of commonplaces . When a man has an earnest thought , no matter how he blurts it out so that ...
Sayfa 64
... speech.3 4 " The author , not seeing sufficient reason for withhold- ing what had been of much practical benefit to himself , consented . " " The subject - matter herein contained is an outgrowth from occasional instructions given while ...
... speech.3 4 " The author , not seeing sufficient reason for withhold- ing what had been of much practical benefit to himself , consented . " " The subject - matter herein contained is an outgrowth from occasional instructions given while ...
Sayfa 65
... Speech is not unlike an endeavor to better one's morals by associating with thieves . Dr. Townsend , like many an- other , mistakes a verbal flux he is afflicted with for literary aptitude . Page 131. " To render a given ambiguous or ...
... Speech is not unlike an endeavor to better one's morals by associating with thieves . Dr. Townsend , like many an- other , mistakes a verbal flux he is afflicted with for literary aptitude . Page 131. " To render a given ambiguous or ...
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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