Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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Page vii
... derivation of curious words like liquorice , or treacle , or rhubarb , or 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 depressing results . An ...
... derivation of curious words like liquorice , or treacle , or rhubarb , or 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 depressing results . An ...
Page 17
... derivation . Still , half - educated persons have such a hankering after Latin words in preference to Eng- lish words , for the expression of common - place notions about things of every - day life , that there is safety in laying down ...
... derivation . Still , half - educated persons have such a hankering after Latin words in preference to Eng- lish words , for the expression of common - place notions about things of every - day life , that there is safety in laying down ...
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... classification of words , their derivation and inflexion . Syntax deals with the combination of words ences , their government , agreement , and 37 CHAPTER V. ELEMENTARY SOUNDS IN ENGLISH . 42. WE 36 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... classification of words , their derivation and inflexion . Syntax deals with the combination of words ences , their government , agreement , and 37 CHAPTER V. ELEMENTARY SOUNDS IN ENGLISH . 42. WE 36 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... derivation of the words , -for vowel comes from vocalis , which means ' capable of being sounded , ' and consonant comes from cum , ' together , ' and sonans , ' sounding , ' i.c. ' what is sounded along with something else , ' — it ...
... derivation of the words , -for vowel comes from vocalis , which means ' capable of being sounded , ' and consonant comes from cum , ' together , ' and sonans , ' sounding , ' i.c. ' what is sounded along with something else , ' — it ...
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... derivation , of many words would be obscured by its adoption ; that the word city , for example , if spelt siti , would fail to suggest to our minds the Latin civitas and its train of ennobling associations . But this line of objection ...
... derivation , of many words would be obscured by its adoption ; that the word city , for example , if spelt siti , would fail to suggest to our minds the Latin civitas and its train of ennobling associations . But this line of objection ...
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