Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... English Grammar , book contains the ' em to a but it does not profess to be a complete manual of the English Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers whose wants it has been written to supply ...
... English Grammar , book contains the ' em to a but it does not profess to be a complete manual of the English Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers whose wants it has been written to supply ...
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... English Grammar probably not more than one will ever read a page of any English author who wrote before the age of Elizabeth , it seems needlessly cruel to the remaining ninety - and - nine to inflict upon them the exhaustive study of ...
... English Grammar probably not more than one will ever read a page of any English author who wrote before the age of Elizabeth , it seems needlessly cruel to the remaining ninety - and - nine to inflict upon them the exhaustive study of ...
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... English Grammar and to Prof. Bain's Higher English Grammar . Use has been made also of Dr Gow's suggestive Method of English , of Dr Angus's Handbook of the English Tongue , of Mr Low's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse ...
... English Grammar and to Prof. Bain's Higher English Grammar . Use has been made also of Dr Gow's suggestive Method of English , of Dr Angus's Handbook of the English Tongue , of Mr Low's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse ...
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... English Vocabulary III . The Indo - European or Aryan Family of Languages IV . The Divisions of Grammar ยท V. Elementary Sounds in English VI . Signs or Letters VII . Etymology VIII . Nouns IX . Inflexion of Nouns . I. Gender X ...
... English Vocabulary III . The Indo - European or Aryan Family of Languages IV . The Divisions of Grammar ยท V. Elementary Sounds in English VI . Signs or Letters VII . Etymology VIII . Nouns IX . Inflexion of Nouns . I. Gender X ...
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... English origin ; that our English forefathers conquered the Britons , deprived them of their lands , and made many of them slaves ; that the English settled in the country belonging to the Britons , and that their descendants have ...
... English origin ; that our English forefathers conquered the Britons , deprived them of their lands , and made many of them slaves ; that the English settled in the country belonging to the Britons , and that their descendants have ...
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