Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... 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 . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , 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 . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , a ...
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... complete . The account of the successive invasions , -first of Jutes , then of Saxons , and then of Angles , all closely allied tribes , must be looked for in a history of the English people , not in a book on the English speech . But ...
... complete . The account of the successive invasions , -first of Jutes , then of Saxons , and then of Angles , all closely allied tribes , must be looked for in a history of the English people , not in a book on the English speech . But ...
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... words which have come into the language indirectly , Latin words ' once removed . ' This Latin element is called the Latin of the Third Period . Now , if we consider how complete the Norman Conquest CONSTITUENTS OF THE VOCABULARY . 11.
... words which have come into the language indirectly , Latin words ' once removed . ' This Latin element is called the Latin of the Third Period . Now , if we consider how complete the Norman Conquest CONSTITUENTS OF THE VOCABULARY . 11.
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... complete the Norman Conquest was and how rapidly it was effected , we may feel some surprise that it is an English language and not a French language which we speak to - day . Norman lords occupied the lands from which English owners ...
... complete the Norman Conquest was and how rapidly it was effected , we may feel some surprise that it is an English language and not a French language which we speak to - day . Norman lords occupied the lands from which English owners ...
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... complete the list of stocks into which the European members of the Aryan family are divided : these are the Slavonic , of which Russian is an important example , and Lettish , which is represented at the present time by dialects in ...
... complete the list of stocks into which the European members of the Aryan family are divided : these are the Slavonic , of which Russian is an important example , and Lettish , which is represented at the present time by dialects in ...
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action adjective Adjuncts adverb alphabet antecedent application apposition auxiliary verb called CHAPTER complete Complex Sentence compound conjugation conjunction consonants construction dative denote derivation diphthongs distinction ellipsis employed English Grammar English language English origin English words Etymology examples express feminine following sentences following words French gender genitive German Gerund Give Greek horse illustrate Imperative Mood Indefinite indicative Indirect Object infinitive inflexion Intransitive Keltic language Latin words letters limiting mark meaning modern English neuter Norman noun or pronoun occur Old English Parse passive Past Participle Past Tense Periodic Sentences person phrase plural possessive predicate prefix preposition present principal clause pronunciation question reader relative pronoun represented Roman sentence contains signifies Sing singular sometimes sonant sound speak speech Strong Verbs style subjunctive mood subordinate clause suffix superlative surd syllable Syntax Teutonic thing thou town transitive verb vocabulary vowel vowel-sounds write