Practical Exercises in English eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 193 pages of information about Practical Exercises in English.

Practical Exercises in English eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 193 pages of information about Practical Exercises in English.

Calculate, intend, distinguished, 94. Can or may, 71. Can’t, 71. Canto, plural of, 18. Capacity, ability, distinguished, 29. Captivate, capture, distinguished, 92. Carry, fetch, bring, distinguished, 94.  Case, possessive, of nouns, 17; of pronouns, 43;
  nominative or objective, 43-50.
Centre, middle, distinguished, 30.  CENTURY DICTIONARY, quoted, 25, 26, 32, 54, 92, 99, 116. Champion, support, distinguished, 94.  Change of pronoun, 56-58. Character, reputation, distinguished, 30.  CHAUCER, quoted, 72. Cherub, plural of, 21. Choose, principal parts of, 61. Claim, assert, allege, etc., distinguished, 94-95.  COLERIDGE, S.T., quoted, 143.  Colloquialisms, defined, 10. Come, principal parts of, 61. Commence, begin, start, distinguished, 100-101. Common, mutual, distinguished, 119. Compare with, compare to, contrast, distinguished, 99.  Comparative and superlative, use of the, 129-131.  Comparison, adjectives and adverbs incapable of, 131-132. Complement, compliment, distinguished, 30. Completion, completeness, distinguished, 26.  Compound nouns, possessive of, 16; plural of, 18.  Conditional mood, 85; sentences, 85-86. Confess, admit, distinguished, 95.  CONJUNCTIONS, 142-149; vulgarisms in the use of, 142—­143; misused, 143-146;
  omitted, 146.; redundant, 146-148; misplaced correlatives, 148-149.
Conscience, consciousness, distinguished, 30. Construe, construct, distinguished, 99. Continual, continuous, distinguished, 122.  Contractions, 43, 71. Contrast, compare to, compare with, distinguished, 99.  Conversation and good use, 7. Convince, convict, distinguished, 99. Could, distinguished from might, 71-72;
  tense of the infinitive with, 79.
Council, counsel, distinguished, 30. Countess, masculine corresponding to, 21. Credit, accredit, distinguished, 92. Crisis, plural of, 21. Curriculum, plural of, 21. Custom, habit, distinguished, 30. Czar, feminine corresponding to, 21.

Daresn’t, 71. Datum, plural of, 21. Deadly, deathly, distinguished, 122. Deception, deceit, distinguished, 30. Declare, assert, claim, etc., distinguished, 94-95. Decided, decisive, distinguished, 122. Delusion, illusion, allusion, distinguished, 25. Demand, ask, distinguished, 95.  Dependent clauses, will or shall in, 73; tenses in, 78. Depreciate, deprecate, distinguished, 92-93. Detect, discriminate, distinguished,99. Determined, bound, distinguished, 122.  Dictionaries, usefulness of, 9; quoted, see CENTURY and MURRAY. Die (noun), plurals of, 19. Different from, different to, 134. Disclose, discover, distinguished, 99. Discover, invent, distinguished, 31. Discriminate, detect,

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