The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... belong to the Keltic group . But our indebtedness to Keltic is small . We may sum it up thus : 1. Geographical names , which are no part of our ordinary vocabulary : 2. A few words handed down from the original Britons , or introduced ...
... belong to the Keltic group . But our indebtedness to Keltic is small . We may sum it up thus : 1. Geographical names , which are no part of our ordinary vocabulary : 2. A few words handed down from the original Britons , or introduced ...
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... belong to different arts and crafts and sciences , and are used by the men who follow those arts and crafts and sciences and by nobody else . Thus the doctor employs hundreds of technical words not used by the rest of us ; then there ...
... belong to different arts and crafts and sciences , and are used by the men who follow those arts and crafts and sciences and by nobody else . Thus the doctor employs hundreds of technical words not used by the rest of us ; then there ...
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... belong to this stock , some of which resemble English more closely than others . Dutch , Flemish , German , Ice- landic , Norwegian , Swedish , Danish , are all of them Teutonic 1 See Max Müller's Lectures on the Science of Language ...
... belong to this stock , some of which resemble English more closely than others . Dutch , Flemish , German , Ice- landic , Norwegian , Swedish , Danish , are all of them Teutonic 1 See Max Müller's Lectures on the Science of Language ...
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... belong the Latin , from which we have borrowed largely , and the modern representatives of the Latin , -Italian , French , Spanish , — Romance languages as they are called , Romance because they come from a Roman source . Then again ...
... belong the Latin , from which we have borrowed largely , and the modern representatives of the Latin , -Italian , French , Spanish , — Romance languages as they are called , Romance because they come from a Roman source . Then again ...
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... belong to this family . These languages fall into two groups . One group is the Indian , which includes Sanskrit , a dead language with an important literature ; the modern dialects of India which are sprung from Sanskrit , such as ...
... belong to this family . These languages fall into two groups . One group is the Indian , which includes Sanskrit , a dead language with an important literature ; the modern dialects of India which are sprung from Sanskrit , such as ...
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