Locutions of this kind should be avoided as inelegant, say rather “I may have done it.
Polite speech does not sanction such locutions as “I can not go that music;” “I will go you a dollar on the race.
Avoid such locutions as “You will not enjoy it except you earn it.
Care should be taken to avoid suchlocutions as the example given which is one of a class that stamps those who make use of them as grossly ignorant.
The American newspapers, he said, even the best of them, admit more and more locutions that puzzle and dismay an English reader.
Nor is it imaginable that an Englishman of comparable education and position would ever employ such locutionsas those I have hitherto quoted from the public addresses of Dr.
Such locutions as /I had went/ and /he seen/ diminish relatively and absolutely, but in all other situations the verb is treated with the lavish freedom that is so characteristic of the American common speech.
American books, newspapers and magazines, especially the last, circulate in England in large number, and some of their characteristic locutions pass into colloquial speech.
But in matters of learning he was orthodox to the point of hunkerousness, and the strange locutions that [Pg038] he encountered on all sides aroused his pedagogic ire.
In Virginia locutions may be heard which have scarcely been current in literature since Shakespeare's time.
The slang of athletics, by the way, is in great part made up of extremely sanguinary locutions borrowed from the terminology of warfare.
Of the manner in which Locutionsof God are perceived by the soul without being actually heard; and of some deceits that might take place in this matter, and how one is to know which is which.
Other Graces bestowed on the Saint--The Promises of our Lord to her--Divine Locutions and Visions XL.
But, on the other side, the divine locutions instruct us without loss of time, and we understand matters which seem to require a month on our part to arrange.
After these locutions of the evil one, the soul is never gentle, but is, as it were, terrified, and greatly disgusted.
I think, too, that these locutions have done your soul good, and in particular that they have made you see your own wretchedness and your faults more clearly, and amend them.
These locutions are so frequent, that I cannot count them; many of them are reproaches, and He sends them when I fall into imperfections.
It is in our power to turn away our attention from theselocutions of our own, just as we can be silent when we are speaking; but, with respect to the former, that cannot be done.
Locutions that come from Satan not only do not leave any good effects behind, but do leave evil effects.
The words of the divine locutions are very distinctly formed; but by the bodily ear they are not heard.
Narrow etymons of the mere scholar and loose locutions of the ignorant are alike denied a standing.
Not all locutions blacklisted herein are always to be reprobated as universal outlaws.
Why, the man had not even the mechanical skill of varying the locutions and changing the styles of his two or three characters.
I had rather believe every syllable of Teresa's so-staggering locutions and visions than be left to this, that ever since Paul and John went home to heaven our Lord's greatest promises have been so many idle words.
The pressing question with me is not the truth or the falsehood, the amount of reality or the amount of imagination in Teresa's locutions and visions.
The wish may very possibly be father to the thought: but my thought leans to Teresa, even in her most astounding locutions and revelations; they answer so entirely to my reading of our Lord and of His words.
And I am not without some assurance that in this present lecture I am both hearing and obeying one of those same locutions that Teresa heard so frequently, and obeyed with such instancy and fidelity and fruitfulness.
Only the second of these alternative locutions in each paragraph is allowed by many grammarians; they utterly condemn the first.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "locutions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
