The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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Page vi
... class of quite small boys , -not merely of the good boys at the top , but of the rank and file , of all , indeed , save the hopeless residuum who ' have taken the whole of science ' for their aversion , -while he sketches for them the ...
... class of quite small boys , -not merely of the good boys at the top , but of the rank and file , of all , indeed , save the hopeless residuum who ' have taken the whole of science ' for their aversion , -while he sketches for them the ...
Page vii
... class reading every week seven pages of this book will work its way to the end in the course of the school year . No attempt has been made to divide the contents into ' Lessons , ' since the number of pages suitable for senior students ...
... class reading every week seven pages of this book will work its way to the end in the course of the school year . No attempt has been made to divide the contents into ' Lessons , ' since the number of pages suitable for senior students ...
Page 25
... classes which we call Stocks . Then again we subdivide a stock into classes of still more closely allied languages , and these subdivisions we call , Branches . Let us treat our own language in this fashion . In the first place , it ...
... classes which we call Stocks . Then again we subdivide a stock into classes of still more closely allied languages , and these subdivisions we call , Branches . Let us treat our own language in this fashion . In the first place , it ...
Page 34
... classes according to their meaning , as nouns , verbs , prepositions , etc. Then we shall inquire what changes of form , or inflexions , any of these words undergo , and what is the effect of these changes on the meaning of the words ...
... classes according to their meaning , as nouns , verbs , prepositions , etc. Then we shall inquire what changes of form , or inflexions , any of these words undergo , and what is the effect of these changes on the meaning of the words ...
Page 41
... classes , and this is a much better plan than learning the lists by heart and then putting the wrong names at the top . If we pronounce b , g , d , j , dh , z , zh , v , w , without an accompanying vowel , we can hear them . These we ...
... classes , and this is a much better plan than learning the lists by heart and then putting the wrong names at the top . If we pronounce b , g , d , j , dh , z , zh , v , w , without an accompanying vowel , we can hear them . These we ...
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