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The Talk Of Host And Hostess At Dinner Sydney Smith, by all accounts a great master of the social ... Past Tensepast Participle The interchange of these two parts of the irregular or so-cal... The Pronouns Very many mistakes occur in the use of the pronouns. "Let you... Grammatical Errors Of Standard Authors Even the best speakers and writers are sometimes caught nappi... Present Perfect Tense Sing. Plural ... Harmony Harmony is that property of style which gives a smoothness to... Riseraise These verbs are very often confounded. Rise is to move or pas... Am Comehave Come "I am come" points to my being here, while "I have come" inti...

ELLIPSIS

Common Stumbling Blocks - Peculiar Constructions - Misused Forms. Errors in ellipsis occur chiefly with prepositions. His objection and condoning of the boy's course, seemed to say the least, paradoxical. (The preposition to should come after objection.) Many men of brilliant parts are crushed by force of circumstances and their genius forever lost to the world. (Some maintain that the missing verb after genius is are, but such is ungrammatical. In such cases the right verb should be always expressed: as--their genius is forever lost to the world.) Next: THE SPLIT INFINITIVE Previous: ATTRACTION Report Privacy SHARE ADD TO EBOOK

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