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It is necessary to know grammar , and it is better to write grammatically than not , but it is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated . Usage is the only test . I would prefer a phrase that was easy and unaffected to ...
It is necessary to know grammar , and it is better to write grammatically than not , but it is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated . Usage is the only test . I would prefer a phrase that was easy and unaffected to ...
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when it sounds better than the blunt , obvious one or when it gives a sentence a better balance . But , I hasten to add , though I think you may without misgiving make this concession to pleasant sound , I think you should make none to ...
when it sounds better than the blunt , obvious one or when it gives a sentence a better balance . But , I hasten to add , though I think you may without misgiving make this concession to pleasant sound , I think you should make none to ...
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... it would be rash to say that they are any better than they were , but for all that it does not seem fatuous to think that the world is on the whole a better place to live in than it was in the past that history sets before us ...
... it would be rash to say that they are any better than they were , but for all that it does not seem fatuous to think that the world is on the whole a better place to live in than it was in the past that history sets before us ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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