The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1901 - 304 pages |
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... town , ' as in Derby , Whitby : the same word is preserved in bye - law . This ending occurs for the most part in the district once occupied by the Danes , called the Danelagh , in the north and east of England . Fell , as in ' Scawfell ...
... town , ' as in Derby , Whitby : the same word is preserved in bye - law . This ending occurs for the most part in the district once occupied by the Danes , called the Danelagh , in the north and east of England . Fell , as in ' Scawfell ...
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... towns . Sometimes they leave the old country and seek their fortunes in a new one . The men who cut themselves adrift from their old moorings are , as a rule , the younger , more vigorous , and more enterprising members of the community ...
... towns . Sometimes they leave the old country and seek their fortunes in a new one . The men who cut themselves adrift from their old moorings are , as a rule , the younger , more vigorous , and more enterprising members of the community ...
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... towns , kept cattle , ploughed the ground , used metals , made boats , could count up to a hundred , recognised family relations , and had various names for God . And the line of argument by which they establish these conclusions is of ...
... towns , kept cattle , ploughed the ground , used metals , made boats , could count up to a hundred , recognised family relations , and had various names for God . And the line of argument by which they establish these conclusions is of ...
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... town in his omnibus he is thinking of the City in quite other connexions than its ennobling associations with the Latin civitas . It is urged again that a phonetic system would obscure words pro- nounced alike but written differently ...
... town in his omnibus he is thinking of the City in quite other connexions than its ennobling associations with the Latin civitas . It is urged again that a phonetic system would obscure words pro- nounced alike but written differently ...
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... town . ' ' The enemy were driven away from the town . ' Thus , in the first sentence we say that the town did some- thing to the enemy , -not , of course , the word town to the word enemy ; what occurred was done by a thing to a thing ...
... town . ' ' The enemy were driven away from the town . ' Thus , in the first sentence we say that the town did some- thing to the enemy , -not , of course , the word town to the word enemy ; what occurred was done by a thing to a thing ...
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