Example sentences for: pepys

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

  • In the three hundred years since Pepys the general drift of English has been towards a Chinese kind of grammer with loss and confusion of inflection and with phrases used as words.

  • For a mechanical and therefore objective lexical comparison I did a spelling check with my Q&A software on the first two paragraphs of Time's August 7, 1989, cover story on anchor woman Diane Sawyer and on the slightly longer first entry in Pepys's Diary , dated January 1, 1660.

  • [Reference throughout this essay is to The Diary of Samuel Pepys , edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970.

  • Pepys writes, just as we might say but ought not write, “..

  • On the other hand, Pepys's English, while familiar enough to us, may sound slightly nonstandard, as where past-tense forms and past participles are coalesced.


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