Example sentences for: curme

How can you use “curme” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Perhaps we are grumpier than usual because the two-volume Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme, Verbatim Books, (which is more comprehensive than A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language , by Quirk, Greenbaum, et al.), and VERBATIM itself are omitted from the section called Suggestions for Further Reading.

  • (I hasten to say that although the Curme Grammar is a VERBATIM Book, my purpose in bringing it up is not to sell books but to contrast its content with that of the subject Grammar .)

  • One of the beauties of the Oxford English Dictionary (and of, say, A Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme) is that users are comforted by quotations from sources that are acknowledged paragons of English usage, writers like Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Scott, etc., even Hemingway.

  • With regard to your review of his Oxford English Grammar , for me too, the traditional grammarians Jesperson, Curme, et al., do it right.

  • Our book publishing activities have not shaken the earth beneath our or anyone else's feet: our bestseller by far has been the two-volume Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme (seven printings), with Richard Lederer's Colonial American English a close second (two printings).


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