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"""Waxed lyrical.
---
layout: post
source: Fowler's Modern English Usage
source_url: bit.ly/1YBG8QJ
title: Waxed lyrical
date: 2016-03-10 14:48:42
categories: writing
---
Fowler's says:
Its primary meaning 'grow larger, increase' (as opposed to 'wane') leads
naturally to the sense 'pass into a specified state or mood, begin to use a
specified tone. In this meaning a following modifier must be an adj. not an
adverb ('He waxed enthusiastic [not enthusiastically] about Australia').
"""
from proselint.tools import memoize, preferred_forms_check
@memoize
def check(text):
"""Suggest the preferred forms."""
err = "misc.waxed"
msg = "The modifier following 'waxed' must be an adj.: '{}' is correct"
waxes = ["wax", "waxes", "waxed", "waxing"]
modifiers = [("ebullient", "ebulliently"),
("ecstatic", "ecstatically"),
("eloquent", "eloquently"),
("enthusiastic", "enthusiastically"),
("euphoric", "euphorically"),
("indignant", "indignantly"),
("lyrical", "lyrically"),
("melancholic", "melancholically"),
("metaphorical", "metaphorically"),
("nostalgic", "nostalgically"),
("patriotic", "patriotically"),
("philosophical", "philosophically"),
("poetic", "poetically"),
("rhapsodic", "rhapsodically"),
("romantic", "romantically"),
("sentimental", "sentimentally")
]
def pairs(word):
return [[word + ' ' + pair[0], [word + ' ' + pair[1]]]
for pair in modifiers]
preferred = []
for word in waxes:
preferred += pairs(word)
return preferred_forms_check(text, preferred, err, msg)
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