Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... employ the word German in a narrower sense , to signify the language spoken to - day in Berlin and taught at school to English boys and girls who are said to be ' learning German . ' This German which is spoken at the present day in ...
... employ the word German in a narrower sense , to signify the language spoken to - day in Berlin and taught at school to English boys and girls who are said to be ' learning German . ' This German which is spoken at the present day in ...
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... employed twice as many words to express his thoughts as anybody else , and he said all that he had to say with about 15,000 words . Milton needed only half that number . An educated man of to - day has a vocabulary of some five or six ...
... employed twice as many words to express his thoughts as anybody else , and he said all that he had to say with about 15,000 words . Milton needed only half that number . An educated man of to - day has a vocabulary of some five or six ...
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... employed in our English speech . Of these sixteen vowel - sounds , eight are long and eight are short . Long vowels father Short vowels attend fur putty fairy pat fatal pet feet pit fawn pot foeman pillow fool put In studying this list ...
... employed in our English speech . Of these sixteen vowel - sounds , eight are long and eight are short . Long vowels father Short vowels attend fur putty fairy pat fatal pet feet pit fawn pot foeman pillow fool put In studying this list ...
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... employ it in spelling other words , writing ' h & some ' for handsome and ' underst & ' for under- stand . The like criticism applies to the compound sound represented by j . The objection may be raised that , if x is rejected because ...
... employ it in spelling other words , writing ' h & some ' for handsome and ' underst & ' for under- stand . The like criticism applies to the compound sound represented by j . The objection may be raised that , if x is rejected because ...
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... employed a different symbol for every different number . Our means of numeration would in this case be of a very imperfect character . Now , although 100,000 distinct sounds may exist in English speech , these distinct sounds are formed ...
... employed a different symbol for every different number . Our means of numeration would in this case be of a very imperfect character . Now , although 100,000 distinct sounds may exist in English speech , these distinct sounds are formed ...
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