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The Bad English of Lindley Murray and Other Writers on the English Language ... George Washington Moon No preview available - 2016 |
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adjective admit adverb bad English better cæsura circumstance of contingency cism clause composition condemns conjunction connected consonant construction correct criticisms Dean Alford Dean of Canterbury Dean's English edition ellipsis English dictionary known English Grammars English language example exclamatory sentence expression fault following sentence frequently Gould says grammarian greater the merits indicative mood instance Lindley Murray says Lindley Murray's errors Lindley Murray's sentence literary Marsh says Marsh's sentence meaning mood Moon's Murray's Grammar nations need to call nominative nouns objects operations and affections opinion orthography passage perfect tense person phrase place and letter plural poem preposition pronoun proper properly proposal propriety Queen's English quotation quoted reader relative pronoun remarks repeated repetition respect Round Table rules signifies singular sition spoken strictest unity subjunctive mood superlative tautology thing tion Trinity College unusual forms Van Diemen's Land verb vocabulary Washington Moon Webster's Dictionary write written