The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... pass into Jutland , which is part of Denmark . The south of Jut - land was probably the home of the Jutes . If we move southwards again into Holstein , we find on the west coast two rivers forming respectively its northern and southern ...
... pass into Jutland , which is part of Denmark . The south of Jut - land was probably the home of the Jutes . If we move southwards again into Holstein , we find on the west coast two rivers forming respectively its northern and southern ...
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... pass months or years or a life - time without bringing into our sentences such words as regularise , generalise , secondary . We should find it a trouble- some business to make a sentence ten words long without using a single native ...
... pass months or years or a life - time without bringing into our sentences such words as regularise , generalise , secondary . We should find it a trouble- some business to make a sentence ten words long without using a single native ...
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... pass on to treat of the grammar of the English language ; and first let us inquire what we mean by Grammar . 33. We can speak a language , or we can write a language , or we can both speak and write a language . All languages were ...
... pass on to treat of the grammar of the English language ; and first let us inquire what we mean by Grammar . 33. We can speak a language , or we can write a language , or we can both speak and write a language . All languages were ...
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... pass on to consider words themselves . We shall show that the words contained in the vocabulary of our language may be arranged in classes according to their meaning , as nouns , verbs , prepositions , etc. Then we shall inquire what ...
... pass on to consider words themselves . We shall show that the words contained in the vocabulary of our language may be arranged in classes according to their meaning , as nouns , verbs , prepositions , etc. Then we shall inquire what ...
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... pass our lives and express our- selves only in prose . We may conceive that an entire nation expressed itself only in prose , and had never expressed itself in anything else . But as soon as a language presents us with compositions 3-2 ...
... pass our lives and express our- selves only in prose . We may conceive that an entire nation expressed itself only in prose , and had never expressed itself in anything else . But as soon as a language presents us with compositions 3-2 ...
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