The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... force of the passage has gone , and the sentence reads as if it were taken from the pages of a third - rate novelist . On the other hand , the extract from Matthew Arnold abounds in Latin words , because he is dealing with a scientific ...
... force of the passage has gone , and the sentence reads as if it were taken from the pages of a third - rate novelist . On the other hand , the extract from Matthew Arnold abounds in Latin words , because he is dealing with a scientific ...
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... force , a water - fall , ' as in ' Stockgill - force , ' are other examples of Danish geographical names . To the Danes we owe also the word are , which took the place of the English form of the 3rd person plural of the verb am . Other ...
... force , a water - fall , ' as in ' Stockgill - force , ' are other examples of Danish geographical names . To the Danes we owe also the word are , which took the place of the English form of the 3rd person plural of the verb am . Other ...
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... force his way by genius , vigour , and precipitance . The old man deifies prudence . The youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance . Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth , and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of ...
... force his way by genius , vigour , and precipitance . The old man deifies prudence . The youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance . Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth , and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of ...
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Alfred Slater West. The letters w and y are used sometimes with the force of consonants , and sometimes with the force of vowels . In wit and yes they are consonants : in few and they , vowels . Hence they are called semi- vowels . In ...
Alfred Slater West. The letters w and y are used sometimes with the force of consonants , and sometimes with the force of vowels . In wit and yes they are consonants : in few and they , vowels . Hence they are called semi- vowels . In ...
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... force of this remark in the case of the following : -chronometer , phantom , vitiate , honour , rheumatism . 9. Explain the presence of the italicised letters in the following words : debt , wetter , pair , favour , number , rhyme ...
... force of this remark in the case of the following : -chronometer , phantom , vitiate , honour , rheumatism . 9. Explain the presence of the italicised letters in the following words : debt , wetter , pair , favour , number , rhyme ...
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