Elements of Rhetoric: a Course in Plain Prose Composition
Elements of Rhetoric: a Course in Plain Prose Composition
Alphonso Gerald Newcomer
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The colloquial contraction hnost may be used in dialect. motion. Distinguished from movement, as abstract from con- crete. Compare action. mutual friend. Often condemned, but without sufficient reason. DISPUTED AND FAULTY DICTION. 303 myself. Not to be used for /; not " John, Mary, and myself made up the party." necessitate. The word is not needed in ordinary discourse. necessity. Not " the necessities of life," but " the necessaries of life." neither. As an adjective or pronoun tlie word means... not either of two. As a conjunction, there is no good reason, perhaps, why it should not introduce a series of more than two, but there is little sanction of the usage: "neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities," etc. Compare either. See also 41, note, nice. Not to be used loosely for pleasant. Properly, the word means delicate, discriminating. no use. Write, " It is of no use." See 58, 1. none. Singular or plural. See 31, 6, note, not as. See 36, 3, note. 0, oh. Use in apostrophe and address, otherwise oh.
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