Using the King's English: Some Guidance to Practice |
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... difficulty is not a dilemma . The English selectors were in a difficulty , in many difficulties , when selecting the cricketers for Australia . They were not , as one newspaper put it , " in a number of dilemmas . " Even if the ...
... difficulty is not a dilemma . The English selectors were in a difficulty , in many difficulties , when selecting the cricketers for Australia . They were not , as one newspaper put it , " in a number of dilemmas . " Even if the ...
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... Difficulty THE many , dismayed by the multiplicity of rules about shall and will , may comfort themselves by saying that the " rules " are broken by all sorts of people , good speakers and good writers , too . One learned professor ...
... Difficulty THE many , dismayed by the multiplicity of rules about shall and will , may comfort themselves by saying that the " rules " are broken by all sorts of people , good speakers and good writers , too . One learned professor ...
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... difficulty , everyone's difficulty , is to know when one has said enough . Are we to be laconic like the writer of this message in The Times " Agony Column " ? - " S.S.D. - So esy . , and you demand the so dffclt . Will try agn . Mst ...
... difficulty , everyone's difficulty , is to know when one has said enough . Are we to be laconic like the writer of this message in The Times " Agony Column " ? - " S.S.D. - So esy . , and you demand the so dffclt . Will try agn . Mst ...
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THE PURPOSE OF IT | 1 |
NEED FOR REVISION | 13 |
THE PURPOSE OF LANGUAGE | 25 |
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