Robert C Pooley
Biographic Data
| ID | 733589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert C Pooley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert C |
| FAMILY NAME | Pooley |
| SIGNATURE | POOLEY R C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Teaching of English Usage
Usage
Research Article| April 01 1964 Usage Robert C. Pooley Robert C. Pooley University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1964) 41 (1): 49–50. https://doi.org/10.1215/-41-1-49 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert C. Pooley; Usage. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 April 1964; 41 (1): 49–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Teaching English Grammar
Grammar in a New Key
Teaching English Suffixes
Subject-Verb Agreement
ject and the verb in idiomatic English constructions. Despite several centuries of rule-making and school-teaching, in which formal concord has always been vigorously imposed, the free idiom of English overleaps the restraining barriers again and again to produce constructions eminently fitting for exact communication, though horrifying to grammarians and logicians. In this article an attempt is made to classify some of the more common instances …
A New Plan of English Grammar
The Case of the Noun or Pronoun with the Gerund
ings established, disputable, and illiterate.) If the reader keeps in mind that the instructions to the judges were to vote on actual usage rather than to give opinion of what usage should be, he will be less disposed to conclude that established, disputable, and illiterate as used in this monograph may be his guide in teaching. The fact that an expression is listed in the Leonard study as disputable is, according to the rules of voting, no autho…
Real" and "Sure" as Adverbs
George William Russell: As the mother nourishes the body so the Mighty Mother nourishes the soul. Yet there are but few who pay reverence where reverence is due, and that is because this benign deity is like a mother who indulges the fancy of her children. Retrospect, from The Candle of Vision, by AE. Ibid., p. 387. use we and he are one i Christ Je us. om chapter twenty-four f The Awakening Helena Richie, by Margaret Deland. Ibid., . 920
Grammar and Usage in Textbooks on English
University of Wisconsin Bureau of Educational Research Bulletin, Number 14, August 1933. The author is credited as Assistant Professor in the Teaching of English, University of Wisconsin. A similar
Myself as a Simple Personal Pronoun
N an earlier issue of AMERICAN SPEECH1 the late Professor S. A. Leonard quotes a letter from a correspondent voicing his objection to the use of myself as a simple personal pronoun. The letter runs, A layman . . . is particularly distressed to see you permit the ridiculous practice that is such very common use of substituting 'myself' for 'me' such a sentence as the one you gave, 'They invited my friends and myself'; no one would say, 'they invit…
A Note on the Redundant At
Subject-Verb Agreement
ject and the verb in idiomatic English constructions. Despite several centuries of rule-making and school-teaching, in which formal concord has always been vigorously imposed, the free idiom of English overleaps the restraining barriers again and again to produce constructions eminently fitting for exact communication, though horrifying to grammarians and logicians. In this article an attempt is made to classify some of the more common instances …
Myself as a Simple Personal Pronoun
N an earlier issue of AMERICAN SPEECH1 the late Professor S. A. Leonard quotes a letter from a correspondent voicing his objection to the use of myself as a simple personal pronoun. The letter runs, A layman . . . is particularly distressed to see you permit the ridiculous practice that is such very common use of substituting 'myself' for 'me' such a sentence as the one you gave, 'They invited my friends and myself'; no one would say, 'they invit…
A Note on the Redundant At
The Case of the Noun or Pronoun with the Gerund
ings established, disputable, and illiterate.) If the reader keeps in mind that the instructions to the judges were to vote on actual usage rather than to give opinion of what usage should be, he will be less disposed to conclude that established, disputable, and illiterate as used in this monograph may be his guide in teaching. The fact that an expression is listed in the Leonard study as disputable is, according to the rules of voting, no autho…
Real" and "Sure" as Adverbs
George William Russell: As the mother nourishes the body so the Mighty Mother nourishes the soul. Yet there are but few who pay reverence where reverence is due, and that is because this benign deity is like a mother who indulges the fancy of her children. Retrospect, from The Candle of Vision, by AE. Ibid., p. 387. use we and he are one i Christ Je us. om chapter twenty-four f The Awakening Helena Richie, by Margaret Deland. Ibid., . 920
Grammar and Usage in Textbooks on English
University of Wisconsin Bureau of Educational Research Bulletin, Number 14, August 1933. The author is credited as Assistant Professor in the Teaching of English, University of Wisconsin. A similar
Subject-Verb Agreement
ject and the verb in idiomatic English constructions. Despite several centuries of rule-making and school-teaching, in which formal concord has always been vigorously imposed, the free idiom of English overleaps the restraining barriers again and again to produce constructions eminently fitting for exact communication, though horrifying to grammarians and logicians. In this article an attempt is made to classify some of the more common instances …
A New Plan of English Grammar
Teaching English Suffixes
Grammar in a New Key
Teaching English Grammar
Usage
Research Article| April 01 1964 Usage Robert C. Pooley Robert C. Pooley University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1964) 41 (1): 49–50. https://doi.org/10.1215/-41-1-49 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert C. Pooley; Usage. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 April 1964; 41 (1): 49–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
The Teaching of English Usage
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