The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... proper attitude of mind , it is in reality the attitude which everybody for the most part instinctively assumes in the simpler activi- ties of speech . The occasions when one stops to consider are few in number . The situations in which ...
... proper attitude of mind , it is in reality the attitude which everybody for the most part instinctively assumes in the simpler activi- ties of speech . The occasions when one stops to consider are few in number . The situations in which ...
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... proper to the tone of conversation . Thus one does not say I am leaving town tomorrow , though one might write this . What one says is I'm leaving town tomorrow . Other similar contractions are they're for they are , he'd for he would ...
... proper to the tone of conversation . Thus one does not say I am leaving town tomorrow , though one might write this . What one says is I'm leaving town tomorrow . Other similar contractions are they're for they are , he'd for he would ...
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... proper tone in speech , the happy medium between slovenliness and pedantry , calls for quickness of perception and sensitiveness to all the delicate fluctuations in the social atmosphere . But just at what point does colloquial ease ...
... proper tone in speech , the happy medium between slovenliness and pedantry , calls for quickness of perception and sensitiveness to all the delicate fluctuations in the social atmosphere . But just at what point does colloquial ease ...
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... that on this level of general colloquial English , the proper antith- esis to slovenly speech is not formal or pedantic speech , ness . but distinguished speech . All cultivated conversation does 60 THE LEVELS OF ENGLISH SPEECH.
... that on this level of general colloquial English , the proper antith- esis to slovenly speech is not formal or pedantic speech , ness . but distinguished speech . All cultivated conversation does 60 THE LEVELS OF ENGLISH SPEECH.
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... proper place . He may not altogether refuse to use slang , but when he does use it , he will realize that he is indulgently forgetting or radically extending the limits which he knows are ordinarily set as the bounds of generally ...
... proper place . He may not altogether refuse to use slang , but when he does use it , he will realize that he is indulgently forgetting or radically extending the limits which he knows are ordinarily set as the bounds of generally ...
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