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How to Write and Speak Correctly by Joseph Devlin

Author:Joseph Devlin [Joseph Devlin] , Date: December 29, 2014 ,Views: 466

How to Write and Speak Correctly by Joseph Devlin

Author:Joseph Devlin [Joseph Devlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reference, Language Arts & Disciplines, Writing Skills, Rhetoric, Grammar, Public Speaking, Grammar & Punctuation
ISBN: 9781557429223
Google: PKcmsZ32yC4C
Amazon: B000SN6IO6
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2003-01-02T05:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER VIII

PITFALLS TO AVOID

Common Stumbling Blocks—Peculiar Constructions—Misused Forms.

ATTRACTION

Very often the verb is separated from its real nominative or subject by several intervening words and in such cases one is liable to make the verb agree with the subject nearest to it. Here are a few examples showing that the leading writers now and then take a tumble into this pitfall:

"The partition which the two ministers made of the powers of government were singularly happy."—Macaulay.

(Should be was to agree with its subject, partition.)



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