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Excerpt from Handbook of Idiomatic English, as Now Written and Spoken: Containing Idioms, Phrases, and Locutions
This Handbook is intended to help Students and Travellers of all nationalities to speak and to write English correctly but it is assumed that those who use it are not mere beginners, and that they will always have a dictionary at hand for consultation. The Handbook contains a carefully selected list of those words and phrases in everyday use which are idiomatic, that is to say, which can seldom or never be translated literally into other languages, and which are rarely to be found in any ordinary grammar or dictionary. Many words, as everyone knows, are used in more or less invariable connection with others. If, for one or other of such words, synonymous words were substituted, the phrase might still be intelligible, but it would be ''not English.'' It should also be borne in mind that the same idea is expressed in different terms under different circumstances, as for example in speaking of oneself, or of others, or to others. Certain words and phrases again are chie?y used in the affirmative, others chie?y in the interrogative or chie?y in the negative.
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This Handbook is intended to help Students and Travellers of all nationalities to speak and to write English correctly but it is assumed that those who use it are not mere beginners, and that they will always have a dictionary at hand for consultation. The Handbook contains a carefully selected list of those words and phrases in everyday use which are idiomatic, that is to say, which can seldom or never be translated literally into other languages, and which are rarely to be found in any ordinary grammar or dictionary. Many words, as everyone knows, are used in more or less invariable connection with others. If, for one or other of such words, synonymous words were substituted, the phrase might still be intelligible, but it would be ''not English.'' It should also be borne in mind that the same idea is expressed in different terms under different circumstances, as for example in speaking of oneself, or of others, or to others. Certain words and phrases again are chie?y used in the affirmative, others chie?y in the interrogative or chie?y in the negative.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
John Kirkpatrick
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266948735
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 335
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Contributors
Author
John Kirkpatrick
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781333637323
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 337
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