The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... sing that Britons never shall be slaves , our intentions are patriotic , but our language is apt to be misleading . Britons we may indeed call ourselves , if in doing so we mean nothing more than this , that we are inhabitants of ...
... sing that Britons never shall be slaves , our intentions are patriotic , but our language is apt to be misleading . Britons we may indeed call ourselves , if in doing so we mean nothing more than this , that we are inhabitants of ...
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... sing ) . These are all sonants in English . Owing to the fact that the sounds of l , m , n , r flowed smoothly on and readily combined with other con- sonants , the Greek grammarians two thousand years ago called them ' fluid ' or ...
... sing ) . These are all sonants in English . Owing to the fact that the sounds of l , m , n , r flowed smoothly on and readily combined with other con- sonants , the Greek grammarians two thousand years ago called them ' fluid ' or ...
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... singing fate or foe and note the result . Unless you have been taught singing by a good master , before you have reached half way the vowel - sound which you are producing will be ee or oo . Fay - eet and fo - oo are blends as complete ...
... singing fate or foe and note the result . Unless you have been taught singing by a good master , before you have reached half way the vowel - sound which you are producing will be ee or oo . Fay - eet and fo - oo are blends as complete ...
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... sing , stands for zh in measure , for sh in mansion , and is silent in isle or aisle . The letter g has one sound in gum , another in gem ; followed by h its sound is sometimes that of f , as in laugh , and sometimes it is not sounded ...
... sing , stands for zh in measure , for sh in mansion , and is silent in isle or aisle . The letter g has one sound in gum , another in gem ; followed by h its sound is sometimes that of f , as in laugh , and sometimes it is not sounded ...
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... sing ' like seraphs , ' not ' like seraphim . ' The forms cherubims , seraphims , are double - plurals . 93. The following paragraphs contain illustrations of various kinds of anomaly in the number of nouns . Anomaly means ' unevenness ...
... sing ' like seraphs , ' not ' like seraphim . ' The forms cherubims , seraphims , are double - plurals . 93. The following paragraphs contain illustrations of various kinds of anomaly in the number of nouns . Anomaly means ' unevenness ...
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