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Slips of speech; a helpful book for everyone who aspires to correct the everyday errors of speaking and writing - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...you? The distinction between shall and will in the interrogative forms of the second person are not very clearly defined. Many writers and speakers use them interchangeably. The answer should have the same auxiliary as the question. "Shall you go to town to-morrow?" "I shall." "Will you attend to this matter promptly?" "I will." Should, Would, Ought Should is often used in the sense of ought; as, "Mary should remain at home to-day and wait upon her sick mother." Should and would are employed to express a conditional assertion; as, " I should go to college, if I could secure the necessary means." "He would have gone fishing, if his father had been willing." Would is often used to express a custom, a determination, or a wish; as, " He would sit all day and moan." "Would to God we had died in the land of Egypt." "He would go, and his parents could not prevent him." Talented Certain authors and critics, including Coleridge, have objected strongly to the use of talented. One writer argues that since there is no such verb as to talent, the formation of such a participle as talented cannot be defended, and he further declares that no good writer is known to use it. Webster (The International Dictionary) states that, as a formative, talented is just as analogical and legitimate as gifted, bigoted, moneyed, lauded, lilied, honeyed, and numerous other adjectives having a participial form, but derived directly from nouns and not from verbs. We must therefore conclude that the use of talented as an adjective is entirely legitimate. Climb down The critics generally oppose the use of the expression climb down. When the verb is employed without its adverbial modifier, the u...
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- EditoreRareBooksClub.com
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 1236213548
- ISBN 13 9781236213549
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine40
- Contatto del produttorenon disponibile
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