The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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Page v
... supply . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , a different choice of materials would often have been made , and the materials chosen would have been treated in a different fashion . Hence it will be found ...
... supply . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , a different choice of materials would often have been made , and the materials chosen would have been treated in a different fashion . Hence it will be found ...
Page vii
... supplies them with faulty sentences which are to be pulled to pieces and put right . Yet even these topics may be so handled as to produce ... supply of sentences for correction has been added to the concluding chapters PREFACE . vii.
... supplies them with faulty sentences which are to be pulled to pieces and put right . Yet even these topics may be so handled as to produce ... supply of sentences for correction has been added to the concluding chapters PREFACE . vii.
Page 18
... supply our needs . Telephone , microscope , ther- mometer , photograph , are examples of Greek compounds , and , if we translate these words into their English equivalents , the advantage which we gain from the use of Greek is apparent ...
... supply our needs . Telephone , microscope , ther- mometer , photograph , are examples of Greek compounds , and , if we translate these words into their English equivalents , the advantage which we gain from the use of Greek is apparent ...
Page 22
... supply us with a necessary word like me , nor were the Romans without it until they took it from the Greeks . With regard to the French words un , trois , me , est , the case is different ; they do ' come from ' the Latin unus , tres ...
... supply us with a necessary word like me , nor were the Romans without it until they took it from the Greeks . With regard to the French words un , trois , me , est , the case is different ; they do ' come from ' the Latin unus , tres ...
Page 23
... supply the growing population with food . We know what happens in our own time and country when men find a difficulty about getting a liveli- hood in the place of their birth . They go somewhere else . Sometimes they move from the ...
... supply the growing population with food . We know what happens in our own time and country when men find a difficulty about getting a liveli- hood in the place of their birth . They go somewhere else . Sometimes they move from the ...
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