Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel
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differ in degree, the first being the weakest. An allusion is an
indirect reference. Among the rest "Mary sat on the beach among the rest." Say "with the rest." Peruse This is one of those high-sounding terms too often employed when read would be much better. Emigrants, Immigrants These words are sometimes confounded. "Did you see the emigrants on the 'Indiana,' which arrived this morning?" "Did the immigrants go directly to Italy?" Exchange the italicized words in the two sentences and they will be correctly used. Somewheres The terminal s should be omitted in such words as anywheres, somewheres, nowheres, anyways, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts. In such cases as "Whereabouts did you find him?" and "We knew his whereabouts," the s is properly retained. Apart, Aside "May I see you apart from the others?" It should be, "May I see you privately" or "aside"? |
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