Sentence examples for literary usage from inspiring English sources

Shortly after, Anton Bernolák produced a grammar (1790) and dictionary (1825 27) of the Slovak language and codified its literary usage.

An exciting development over the past few years is that many of the tools that scholars use to plumb the depths of literary usage are now publicly available online.

This "their" is an excellent pedants' trap with relevance to today's arguments over gender-neutral pronouns: we are accustomed to think it was overwhelmingly the rule in past ages to use "his" to mean "his or her", but in fact singular "they" was quite common in literary usage until the late 18th century.

While this distinction can still be seen in the written language, it has been largely lost in colloquial spoken Tamil, and even in literary usage the letters (dental) and (alveolar) may be seen as allophonic.

Because ancient cosmic myths had been part of the Israelite intellectual inheritance, as seen in literary usages throughout Scriptures, the impact of such ideas was to reinvigorate the mythic elements in Judaism.

At my home in Michigan, I have a hardback book from long ago that articulates the New York Times literary standards of usage.

Literary agents use it for queries.

Because she strove to reshape literary conventions — syntax, language usage, narrative order and the sense of making sense — any comment on her choices may already be rebuffed in her poetics and practice.

Kavignar Sakthikanal, whose 1971 work was the basis for Karunanidhi's novel, observed that the inaccuracies originated from the novel itself due its usage of literary devices like exaggeration.

An ideal dictionary would present an array of real-world examples, weighted somewhat to favor the professional over the amateur but also showing everyday usage alongside more literary examples drawn from books and movies and television and so on.

His grammar of Czech, Lehrgebäude der böhmischen Sprache (1809; "Learning System of the Bohemian Language"), codified the language and brought order to the usage of the literary language that had come to be neglected in the preceding 150 years.