Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... 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 thousand words . Two thousand ...
... 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 thousand words . Two thousand ...
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... express the passage in words of English origin . Thus the Latin element in a man's style will vary according to his subject . If he is writing on a philosophical subject , the proportion of Latin words must necessarily be high , because ...
... express the passage in words of English origin . Thus the Latin element in a man's style will vary according to his subject . If he is writing on a philosophical subject , the proportion of Latin words must necessarily be high , because ...
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... express his meaning . The other words in his sentences are for the most part English and must be English , since about these no choice is possible . It is sometimes said that we ought always to use an English word instead of a Latin ...
... express his meaning . The other words in his sentences are for the most part English and must be English , since about these no choice is possible . It is sometimes said that we ought always to use an English word instead of a Latin ...
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... express the complex ideas of science , we fall back on Greek to supply our needs . Telephone , microscope , ther- mometer , photograph , are examples of Greek compounds , and , if we translate these words into their English equivalents ...
... express the complex ideas of science , we fall back on Greek to supply our needs . Telephone , microscope , ther- mometer , photograph , are examples of Greek compounds , and , if we translate these words into their English equivalents ...
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... express the ideas of the people who use it . In what respects would English be deficient without its Latin or Greek element ? On the other hand , there is a risk that the synonyms of a mixed vocabulary may land a speaker or writer in ...
... express the ideas of the people who use it . In what respects would English be deficient without its Latin or Greek element ? On the other hand , there is a risk that the synonyms of a mixed vocabulary may land a speaker or writer in ...
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