The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... explanation is this , that the various lan- guages have proceeded from a common source . Suppose that many of the nations of Europe and Asia are descended from a tribe which existed some thousands of years ago . Suppose that , as this ...
... explanation is this , that the various lan- guages have proceeded from a common source . Suppose that many of the nations of Europe and Asia are descended from a tribe which existed some thousands of years ago . Suppose that , as this ...
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... explain the existence of these similarities between many of the languages of Europe and Asia . A comparison of most of the languages of Europe with many of the languages of India discloses to us the fact that , instead of being totally ...
... explain the existence of these similarities between many of the languages of Europe and Asia . A comparison of most of the languages of Europe with many of the languages of India discloses to us the fact that , instead of being totally ...
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... explanation of these tendencies . That branch of the subject which has to do with topics of this sort is sometimes called Phonology , or the theory of spoken sounds . 36. Then again , words may be written as well as spoken , and they ...
... explanation of these tendencies . That branch of the subject which has to do with topics of this sort is sometimes called Phonology , or the theory of spoken sounds . 36. Then again , words may be written as well as spoken , and they ...
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... Explain the nature of the changes which the following words exhibit when they are compared with the corresponding forms supplied by other languages , or by our own language at an earlier stage : — ' enough , ' Ger . genug : ' I , ' Ger ...
... Explain the nature of the changes which the following words exhibit when they are compared with the corresponding forms supplied by other languages , or by our own language at an earlier stage : — ' enough , ' Ger . genug : ' I , ' Ger ...
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... explain that he means an animal , no one but a person of pains- taking stupidity would find any ambiguity in the word when he met with it in print . 58. As our alphabet is defective to the extent of seven- teen out of the thirty - nine ...
... explain that he means an animal , no one but a person of pains- taking stupidity would find any ambiguity in the word when he met with it in print . 58. As our alphabet is defective to the extent of seven- teen out of the thirty - nine ...
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