Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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With a Chapter on Essay Writing Alfred Slater West. sentences for correction has been added to the concluding chapters on Syntax . There is reason to hope that the boys and girls who attack these problems will find the benefit , not ...
With a Chapter on Essay Writing Alfred Slater West. sentences for correction has been added to the concluding chapters on Syntax . There is reason to hope that the boys and girls who attack these problems will find the benefit , not ...
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... sentences , and then we can describe what is the relation in which each word ... following pages however no attempt has been made to keep the treatment of ... sentences , our treatment of the subject will be finished ...
... sentences , and then we can describe what is the relation in which each word ... following pages however no attempt has been made to keep the treatment of ... sentences , our treatment of the subject will be finished ...
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... these eight different classes we call the Parts of Speech . 65. The Parts of Speech are the classes into which the words of a language fall , when they are arranged according to their separate functions in a sentence .. The following ...
... these eight different classes we call the Parts of Speech . 65. The Parts of Speech are the classes into which the words of a language fall , when they are arranged according to their separate functions in a sentence .. The following ...
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... following four divisions : I. Nouns . i . Names of THINGS . 2 . 3 . ii . Expressing ATTRIBUTES 4 . Personal Pronouns . Adjectives . Verbs . 5 . Adverbs . iii . Expressing Relations 6. Conjunctions , between sentences . 7. Prepositions ...
... following four divisions : I. Nouns . i . Names of THINGS . 2 . 3 . ii . Expressing ATTRIBUTES 4 . Personal Pronouns . Adjectives . Verbs . 5 . Adverbs . iii . Expressing Relations 6. Conjunctions , between sentences . 7. Prepositions ...
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... following sentences ? — ' Count the money .'— ' Keep count as you go .'— ' Foreign coins will not count .'- ' Count is a foreign title .'- ' It is slovenly not to date your letters .'- ' Bring the statement up to date .'— ' These ...
... following sentences ? — ' Count the money .'— ' Keep count as you go .'— ' Foreign coins will not count .'- ' Count is a foreign title .'- ' It is slovenly not to date your letters .'- ' Bring the statement up to date .'— ' These ...
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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