How to Speak and Write Correctly

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st twenty hundred words, the knowing where to place them, will make us not masters of the English language, but masters of correct speaking and writing. Small number, you will say, compar

ngs by their common names; you may be ambitious to show superiority over others and display your learning or, rather, your pedantry and lack of learning. For instance, you may not want to call a spade a spade. You may prefer to

liar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance.

at many people who pass in society as being polished, refined and educated use less, for they know less. The greatest sch

has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different

gue correctly. It only requires a little pains, a little care, a

whose language grates upon the ear and jars the sensitiveness of the finer feelings. The blunders of the latter, his infringement of all the

lf as a correct conversationalist in the best society or be able to write and express

ut the mistakes he must avoid and giving him such assistance as will enable him to reach the goal of a correct knowledge of th

LANGUAGE I

A Noun signifies the name of any person, place or thing, in fact, anything of which we can have either thought or idea. There are two kinds of Nouns, Proper and Common. Common Nouns are names which belong in common to a race or class, as man, city. Proper Nouns distinguish individual members of a race or class as J

ed and the subject under consideration, whether by discourse or correspondence. The Persons are First, Second and Third a

, singular and plural; the singular denotes one, the plural two or more. T

the female kind, the neuter gender denotes inanimate things or whatever is without life, and common gender is applied to animate beings, the sex of which for the time being is indeterminable, such as fish, mouse, bird, etc. Sometimes things which are without li

ive and the Objective. The nominative is the subject of which we are speaking or the agent which directs the action of the verb; th

hether the latter is used in a particular or genera

n, that is, which shows some distinguishing

INI

the same noun too often. Pronouns, like nouns, have case, number, gender and

. A verb is inflected by tense and mood and by number and person,

difies a verb, an adjective

ds and to show the relation between

ch joins words, phrases, cl

ich expresses surprise or so

ESSE

English language are: Purity

bsolete terms, foreign idioms, ambiguous expressions or any ungrammatical language whatsoever. Neither doe

peaker or writer wishes to convey. All ambiguous words, words of double meaning and words that might possibly be construed in a sense different from that intended, are

to comprehend immediately the meaning of the speaker or writer. It forbids, on the one hand, all long and involved sentences, and, on the other, those that ar