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IN THE USE OF

GOOD ENGLISH:

A HAND-BOOK FOR ALL WHO DESIRE TO SPEAK
OR WRITE CORRECT ENGLISH.

BY

ALBERT N. RAUB, PH. D., LL.D.,

AUTHOR OF 'LESSONS IN ENGLISH," "PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR,"
"PRACTICAL RHETORIC," "STUDIES IN ENGLISH AND AMERI-
CAN LITERATURE," "METHODS OF TEACHING,"
"SCHOOL MANAGEMENT," ETC.

PHILADELPHIA :
RAUB & CO.

1897.

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PREFACE.

THE object of this book is that of serving as a convenient hand-book for editors, lawyers, teachers, clergymen and others who have occasion to write or speak the English language, and who desire to do so in accordance with approved modern usage.

The aim of the author has been to make the book helpful to all who may find it necessary or interesting to consult its pages, especially on the subjects of Capital Letters, Syllabication, Syntax, Punctuation, LetterWriting and Diction.

Only those points in Grammar have been discussed which, it is thought, may prove most helpful to those who desire to speak or write the language correctly.

Many sentences taken from the works of reputable writers, but illustrating violations of correct usage, have been incorporated in the book, and the proper corrections indicated, either in marks of parenthesis where a word has been improperly omitted or in brackets where the wrong word has been used by the author quoted.

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