Read the incident over two or three times and then tell it aloud in your own words,
bearing in mind the specific words that the author uses at certain points. If you
like these words, make them your own by using them. If you can get some
member of your family to listen to you, ask for criticism. ... LESSON 23 Conversation in Narration It is important in telling stories to be able to write good conversation. Study again the conversation in the selection from New Dresses
given on pages 458 to ...
Repeat Exercise 2 with a conversation you have overheard. If you know
shorthand, take such a conversation down word for word, if you can do so without
being offensive to anyone. You will find many people who speak so loudly that
you cannot help hearing every word they speak. If necessary, rewrite the conversation in good English which is at the same time not too stiff. Which do you
prefer? 4. List six words used technically in sports or in science which have
recently become ...
It will reveal itself as a fitting accompaniment to the words. If, however, discretion
cannot train you to ... interpretation and clear enunciation. Remember that in a
group, enunciation has a tendency to blur; consequently, exaggerate, more than
you would in conversation or reading, the pronunciation of the individual words.
After practice, let the parts be worked into a harmonious whole, with a skillful
pupil acting as leader. The verse-speaking chorus is directed as any 152 English
Patterns.
But quitting the consideration of the thought, to refer to the mode of its expression,
it must be remarked and insisted, that to " murder the king's English" is hardly less
a crime, than to design against one of the king's subjects. If committed from
ignorance, the fault is at least deplorable ; but if from carelessness, it is
inexcusable. The greatest of sciences is that of language ; the greatest of human
arts is that of using words. No " cunning hand" of the artificer can contrive a work
of mechanism ...
In the same manner, the subject of a conversation need not be made a matter of
study, or special preparation. Men may talk of things ... But quitting the
consideration of the thought, to refer to the mode of its expression, it must be
remarked and insisted, that to “murder the king's English” is hardly less a crime,
than to design against one of the king's subjects. If committed from ... The greatest
of sciences is that of language; the greatest of human arts is that of using words.
No “cunning ...
Yll we to know even what the present pronunciation is, when the same words are
often differently pronounced by different speakers, and those, perhaps, of equal
numbers and reputation? ... the ear so forcibly as to mark any direct impropriety in
particular words, but occasion only such a eneral pass very well in common conversation; butwheu they are required to pronounce with emphasis, and for
that pl1'l'pO89\tl) be i_n_o_r_e distiuctyand definite in theiiyutterance, here their
ear fails ...
Float - boat, die Holzflöße. – Floating capital, ein großes imaginaires Kapital (viel
größer, als das reelle Kapital in der Handlung) bestehend in offenem Eredit bey
seinen Freunden. – Flood-gate, die Schleuse, das Schutzbret. – Flower de luce,
die Schwertlilie. – Our ladies flow er, die Hyacinthe. – Flower-amour (
flowergentle), die Sammetblume, das Tausendschön. – Fly-blow, *) From the
Norman fils, a son. Only used in law and genealogy. lt is commonly used of
illegitimate children.
