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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... word to use . " If you go there you will be apt to get into trouble . " Here either likely or liable is the proper word , according to the thought the speaker would convey . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Aren't . A contraction of are not ...
... word to use . " If you go there you will be apt to get into trouble . " Here either likely or liable is the proper word , according to the thought the speaker would convey . Arctics . See RUBBERS . Aren't . A contraction of are not ...
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... word is apart . " Asperse . This word and its synonyms are employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word denotes an effort made in a particular way to injure . To asperse , is to speak slightingly of any one , and to insinuate ...
... word is apart . " Asperse . This word and its synonyms are employed by few persons in their true sense . Each word denotes an effort made in a particular way to injure . To asperse , is to speak slightingly of any one , and to insinuate ...
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... word when some other word of a less repulsive mien would be chosen by persons of better taste and more culture . A while since . An expression often heard but not correct . We should say , " A while ago . " See SINCE . Bad cold ...
... word when some other word of a less repulsive mien would be chosen by persons of better taste and more culture . A while since . An expression often heard but not correct . We should say , " A while ago . " See SINCE . Bad cold ...
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... word balustrade , the name in architecture of a railing formed of a range of balusters supporting a hand rail or coping . Barbarism . Defined as an offense against good usage , by the use of an improper word - i . e . , a word that is ...
... word balustrade , the name in architecture of a railing formed of a range of balusters supporting a hand rail or coping . Barbarism . Defined as an offense against good usage , by the use of an improper word - i . e . , a word that is ...
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... words have the same meaning ; careful speakers , however , ordinarily prefer to use the former . Indeed , there is rarely ... word . 2. That besides , as a preposition , take the remaining sense , in addition to ; as , besides all this ...
... words have the same meaning ; careful speakers , however , ordinarily prefer to use the former . Indeed , there is rarely ... word . 2. That besides , as a preposition , take the remaining sense , in addition to ; as , besides all this ...
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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