A Text-book on Rhetoric (1882) |
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... present " ( 96 ) , and a solecism " a construction at war with the grammar " ( 97 ) . He grouped tautology , verbosity , and redundancy in the same lesson , saying these faults " surround the leading thought with qualifying ...
... present " ( 96 ) , and a solecism " a construction at war with the grammar " ( 97 ) . He grouped tautology , verbosity , and redundancy in the same lesson , saying these faults " surround the leading thought with qualifying ...
Page 95
... present . 2. Have regard , in your choice , to the analogy of the language . Use contemporary and not cotemporary , since usually the # of con is retained before a consonant , and is dropped before a vowel . 3. Prefer that which is most ...
... present . 2. Have regard , in your choice , to the analogy of the language . Use contemporary and not cotemporary , since usually the # of con is retained before a consonant , and is dropped before a vowel . 3. Prefer that which is most ...
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... present should be asked to take part in the discussion . Break- ing up routine , and conciliating the good will of those addressed by this show of respect to their opinions , the subject thus brought home to them and made personal takes ...
... present should be asked to take part in the discussion . Break- ing up routine , and conciliating the good will of those addressed by this show of respect to their opinions , the subject thus brought home to them and made personal takes ...
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