Handbook of Commercial English (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913. Excerpt: ... 18. The stenographer, not the bookkeeper to blame. 19. The manager, not the assistants responsible. 20. The child at the parade, and her father and mother. 21. The teacher as well as the pupil there. 22. Not success but failures shadowed his life. 23. The professor, with his son, spending vacation in the mountains. 24. There nothing I can do. 25. There more pupils present than we expected. LESSON XXXIV. Use Of Words. Proficient pertains to skill acquired. Efficient pertains to the quality that brings all one's power to bear promptly to the best purpose on the thing to be done. Relate, to recount particulars, bringing into relation or connection of one with another. Tell, to communicate knowledge by word or mouth. Narrate, to tell either in speech or writing, in successive order the details of. Rehearse, to repeat that which has already been spoken. Trust, a confidence in the reliability of persons or things without special or careful investigation. Faith is a union of belief and trust, is chiefly personal. Confidence is a firm dependence upon a statement as true, or upon a person as worthy. Belief is the acceptance of something as true on other grounds than personal experience and observation. In religion a distinction is made between intellectual belief of a religious truth and belief of the heart. Empty, that which contains nothing is empty. Usually applied to common or homely things, as an empty dish. Vacant has reference to rights or possibilities of occupancy, and relates to things of dignity. Mode. Aids. 1. Instead of the present subjunctive forms, "If I be," "If he be," "If it be," the indicative forms are generally employed; but the subjunctive forms, "If I were," "If he were," are employed by the best speakers and writers. "If I (he, she, or it) ...