Excerpt from Some Ill-Used Words This book is levelled, specially, at some half dozen errors that are made by wellnigh every one that uses the English language. Who, for example, does not misuse the auxiliary verbs, and the words anticipate, anxious, financial, and hurry; and who does not over-use the words former and latter? Then who does not use a certain ponderous locution in which a noun is made to do duty as a verb? And then there are not a few that persist in using that repulsive construction in which there are two ...
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Excerpt from Some Ill-Used Words This book is levelled, specially, at some half dozen errors that are made by wellnigh every one that uses the English language. Who, for example, does not misuse the auxiliary verbs, and the words anticipate, anxious, financial, and hurry; and who does not over-use the words former and latter? Then who does not use a certain ponderous locution in which a noun is made to do duty as a verb? And then there are not a few that persist in using that repulsive construction in which there are two nomi natives and only one verb? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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