Sentence examples for correct diction from inspiring English sources
Sophists like Prodicus offered training courses in this subject, sometimes perhaps meaning by it little more than lessons in correct diction.
Make sure your sentences are correct and also observe correct grammar and even the spelling, because some readers are sensitive to spelling and including correct diction.
But if an editor begins to change substantial portions of the book to correct for diction, then the publisher may need to get the author's approval, and the book may need to be copy-edited again, and possibly even laid out anew.
Macdonald saw the abandonment of such distinctions, between correct and incorrect diction or genuine and sham art, as a society's abandonment of its own history and traditions.
The value of a good communicator cannot be understated, but to speak with precision is to find and use the correct combination of diction and tone to express an idea as clearly as possible.
His voice is more ethereal than robust, his phrasing and diction so oratorically correct that his approach occasionally verges on the stuffy.
It is easy to point out that its thought is commonplace, that its diction and imagery are correct, noble but unoriginal, and to wonder where the immediately recognizable greatness has slipped in".
For the qualitative method, the experts were asked to assess the instrument based on correct grammar usage, choice of appropriate diction, appropriate sequencing of items, and proper weighting of items, and also to provide feedback.
"I thought I had superb diction and that no one would need to correct anything," she said.
His diction becomes "strangely Anglicized" from his affection for the fiction of Conrad, Lawrence and Henry James, and he takes to correcting his parents' English.
