Slips of Speech
by John Hendricks Bechtel
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bechtel, John Hendricks, 1841-1915
- Title
- Slips of speech : a helpful book for everyone who aspires to correct the everyday errors of speaking and writing
- Credits
- Jim Weiler, xooqi.com.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PE: Language and Literatures: English
- Subject
- English language -- Errors of usage
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 4983
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4983
- Release Date
- January 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Slips of Speech — by John H. Bechtel — Philadelphia — The Penn Publishing Company — 1901 — COPYRIGHT 1895 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY — Contents
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.SLIPS OF SPEECH
- 4.CHAPTER I Taste
- 5.CHAPTER II Choice of Words
- 6.CHAPTER III Contractions
- 7.CHAPTER IV Possessive Case
- 8.CHAPTER V Pronouns
- 9.CHAPTER VI Number
- 10.CHAPTER VII Adverbs
- 11.CHAPTER VIII Conjunctions
- 12.CHAPTER IX Correlatives
- 13.CHAPTER X The Infinitive
- 14.CHAPTER XI Participles
- 15.CHAPTER XII Prepositions
- 16.CHAPTER XIII The Article
- 17.CHAPTER XIV Redundancy
- 18.CHAPTER XV Two Negatives
- 19.CHAPTER XVI Accordance of Verb with Subject
- 20.INDEX
- 21.Untitled
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