Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... persons would give 100,000 as the number , others 200,000 , others 400,000 . These startling discrepancies do not imply any incapacity to count correctly on the part of the people who furnish the estimates ; they arise from a difference ...
... persons would give 100,000 as the number , others 200,000 , others 400,000 . These startling discrepancies do not imply any incapacity to count correctly on the part of the people who furnish the estimates ; they arise from a difference ...
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... 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 the rule , at any rate for them ...
... 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 the rule , at any rate for them ...
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... person plural of the verb am . Other additions which they made to our vocabulary are seen in the words fellow , sky , scant , ugly . The common termina- tion -son in names of persons , e.g. ' Johnson , ' ' Anderson , ' is Danish . Words ...
... person plural of the verb am . Other additions which they made to our vocabulary are seen in the words fellow , sky , scant , ugly . The common termina- tion -son in names of persons , e.g. ' Johnson , ' ' Anderson , ' is Danish . Words ...
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... persons and reading well - written books . What grammar does is this : it treats of the language generally , its ... person says ' Ask him to let you and I go out ' ; we see that the grammar is bad , and if we alter the sentence to ...
... persons and reading well - written books . What grammar does is this : it treats of the language generally , its ... person says ' Ask him to let you and I go out ' ; we see that the grammar is bad , and if we alter the sentence to ...
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... person who gives a hesitating ' yes ' in reply to a question says ee - es . By some writers h is not admitted to a place among the consonants , but is regarded as merely an audible emission of breath before vowels or semi - vowels , and ...
... person who gives a hesitating ' yes ' in reply to a question says ee - es . By some writers h is not admitted to a place among the consonants , but is regarded as merely an audible emission of breath before vowels or semi - vowels , and ...
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