Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... pass into Jutland , which is part of Denmark . The south of Jut - land was probably the home of the Jutes . If we move southwards again into Holstein , we find on the west coast two rivers forming respectively its northern and southern ...
... pass into Jutland , which is part of Denmark . The south of Jut - land was probably the home of the Jutes . If we move southwards again into Holstein , we find on the west coast two rivers forming respectively its northern and southern ...
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... pass freely into the native vocabulary , and by the year 1400 French had ceased to be the speech of the nobility in England . The French lan- guage is in the main a form of Latin , though the Gauls were a Keltic race . 5. The Revival of ...
... pass freely into the native vocabulary , and by the year 1400 French had ceased to be the speech of the nobility in England . The French lan- guage is in the main a form of Latin , though the Gauls were a Keltic race . 5. The Revival of ...
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... pass months or years or a life - time without bringing into our sentences such words as regularise , generalise , secondary . We should find it a trouble- some business to make a sentence ten words long without using a single native ...
... pass months or years or a life - time without bringing into our sentences such words as regularise , generalise , secondary . We should find it a trouble- some business to make a sentence ten words long without using a single native ...
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... pass on to treat of the grammar of the English language ; and first let us nquire what we mean by Grammar . write a 33. We can speak a language , or we can language , or we can both speak and write a language languages were spoken ...
... pass on to treat of the grammar of the English language ; and first let us nquire what we mean by Grammar . write a 33. We can speak a language , or we can language , or we can both speak and write a language languages were spoken ...
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... pass on to consider words themselves . We shall show that the words contained in the vocabulary of our language may be arranged in classes according to their meaning , as nouns , verbs , prepositions , etc. Then we shall inquire what ...
... pass on to consider words themselves . We shall show that the words contained in the vocabulary of our language may be arranged in classes according to their meaning , as nouns , verbs , prepositions , etc. Then we shall inquire what ...
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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