Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-08-10 | Page 3 | Little Words of Big Import Are Explained

LITTLE WORDS OF BIG IMPORT ARE ABE EXPLAINED Conjunctions an and Prepositions Are Subjects of Interesting Interesting Interesting Inter Inter- esting Studies Studies As a an aside to his occupation as as a lexicographer Dr Frank II H. has found time recently to contribute two to monographs up upon upon upon up- up those thos little on what h he hI terms words that serve as Interpreters of ot thought and show the relation of ot terms one to another Pre another Pre Prepositions positions How to Use Them and andI I Conjunctions Their Use and Abuse Just issued by the Funk l' l agnall Company of New ew York Both of these hese manuals classify the parts of ot o 0 which they treat give examples of errors o of usage e. and point out the way to lish are clearly and concisely prepositions prepositions pre pre- positions and conjunctions In English Eng Eng- lish lith are clearl clearly and presented pro pre and some of the dicta of the grammarians hitherto accepted as Inviolable are are plainly discussed Among these the most striking Is the position of the or orthe orthe orthe the conjunction in itt a a. sentence and the he consideration of the question Does every preposition govern the objective case It Is Js Dr s belief bellet that common sense may in iii inmany many cases overrule o the grammarians grammarians' grammarians grammarians' gram grant marians' marians dicta for says lie be most moat of our English grammars have have mors morI mor mori rules s than are needed a and yet ar arvery very deficient I i of such h ha as we lJ do need As examples of usage but violations violations vio rio lations of ot grammatical precision the following are cited to illustrate how prepositions and conjunctions may be placed In r r a sen Tl e ee f tence Preposition To an energetic energetic e tic man man action is a relief Action Action Action Ac tion is a relief to an energetic eUc man Whom did you speak to to To whom did you speak In the first and fourth of these sentences the preposition precedes in the second it is placed as a conjunctive tive in the middle of the sentence in the third K it o appears at the end thus showing that the position of ot the preposition is really reany governed by In Ia the bringing thought ot out to t be the expressed importance of ot conjunctions the author quotes Robert 1 Mott's Motts rOtt quatrain The current is often orten evinced by bythe bythe bythe the straws And the he course of or the wind by the flight of ot a feather So a speaker is known by hs h's ands antis and his ors ors N Those stitches that fasten his his patchwork together That the misuse of or conjunctions Is common to many is proved by the number of examples of misuse cited Every kind nd of or conJunction conjunction con con- Junction is classified here whether er coordinate or or copulative adversative adversative adver adver- casual illative or inferential inferential subordinate final temporal local conditional correlative cor 01 or- or relative or as well as disjunctive lve Adverbial conjunctions conjunctions conjunctions come In for consideration and the correct use of ot each one Is Indicated in indicated indicated in- in by citations from English literature The sources of ot the conjunctions con junctions are considered and cx ex cx- cx and their position In Ia n a l sentence sentence sen sen- tence illustrated As a specimen of what can b be done with the conjunction in English English Eng Eng- lish sh Dr tho the following 1 following 1 That I would not hurt a fly I wish you to believe 2 I 1 wish you to believe that I would not hurt a fly 3 I 1 would no not hurt a fly I wish you to be believe believe be- be lieve lIe that There Is some quaint I philosophy running throughout these pages pages quotations that should prove food for thought for those who care to look below the sir ear ir- ir face Among these may be cited a quotations used to illustrate the tho house use of the correlative as as Men Men ate born even as s women are with wit two eyes and one ono tongue that the they may see twice as as much as th they y tell teU but some seem seem to have been born with two tongues tongues' and only one e eye e for though h the they see little they talk much Dr be believes believes believes be- be that hat in speech and in writIng writing writing writ writ- ing several parts of ever every complex complex com corn plex sentence should be closely connected so that the persons spoken understand en de to td or the the rt reader thought Ue can expressed clearly Few ew of ot us will care to quarrel with this view The The Funk Company Compan New York