The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... , save the hopeless residuum who ' have taken the whole of science ' for their aversion , -while he sketches for them the gradual growth of our language , or talks over with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , vi PREFACE .
... , save the hopeless residuum who ' have taken the whole of science ' for their aversion , -while he sketches for them the gradual growth of our language , or talks over with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , vi PREFACE .
Page vii
Alfred Slater West. with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , or tells them the derivation of curious words like liquorice , or treacle , or rhubarb , or supplies them with faulty sentences which are to be pulled to ...
Alfred Slater West. with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , or tells them the derivation of curious words like liquorice , or treacle , or rhubarb , or supplies them with faulty sentences which are to be pulled to ...
Page viii
... common property of all who choose to write upon the subject . My cordial thanks are due to several Cambridge friends for criticisms and suggestions which have enabled me to improve in many respects the original draft of this book ...
... common property of all who choose to write upon the subject . My cordial thanks are due to several Cambridge friends for criticisms and suggestions which have enabled me to improve in many respects the original draft of this book ...
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... common property of all who choose to write upon the subject . My cordial thanks are due to several Cambridge friends for criticisms and suggestions which have enabled me to improve in many respects the original draft of this book ...
... common property of all who choose to write upon the subject . My cordial thanks are due to several Cambridge friends for criticisms and suggestions which have enabled me to improve in many respects the original draft of this book ...
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... common enemy , they called themselves ' Englishmen . ' If the use of the word leads people to think that the ' Anglo - Saxons ' were of a different race from ourselves , it will be well to drop the term . If on the other hand it is ...
... common enemy , they called themselves ' Englishmen . ' If the use of the word leads people to think that the ' Anglo - Saxons ' were of a different race from ourselves , it will be well to drop the term . If on the other hand it is ...
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