Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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Page vii
... present purpose . They are of very different degrees of difficulty . Occasionally they raise points which are interesting , but not important enough to deserve dis- cussion in the text of the chapter to which they are attached . In such ...
... present purpose . They are of very different degrees of difficulty . Occasionally they raise points which are interesting , but not important enough to deserve dis- cussion in the text of the chapter to which they are attached . In such ...
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... present day in Germany is itself one of the Teutonic dialects . Thus the Jutes and Saxons and Angles were very dif ferent people from the Britons . The Jutes , Saxons , and Angles , or to call them by a collective name , the English ...
... present day in Germany is itself one of the Teutonic dialects . Thus the Jutes and Saxons and Angles were very dif ferent people from the Britons . The Jutes , Saxons , and Angles , or to call them by a collective name , the English ...
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... present day by ' Anglo - Saxons ' we signify people of English race . ( 2 ) Applied to language Anglo - Saxon is a misleading term , sug- gesting as it does that the English settlers all spoke one dialect . Now there were at least three ...
... present day by ' Anglo - Saxons ' we signify people of English race . ( 2 ) Applied to language Anglo - Saxon is a misleading term , sug- gesting as it does that the English settlers all spoke one dialect . Now there were at least three ...
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... good secondary schools have at present some examination proceeding from the universities ; and if this kind of examination , customary and admitted already , were generalised and regularised , 14 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... good secondary schools have at present some examination proceeding from the universities ; and if this kind of examination , customary and admitted already , were generalised and regularised , 14 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... present many points of resemblance , —so many indeed that we are driven to the conclusion that these languages have proceeded from a common source . This collection of languages we call the Indo - European or Aryan Family of Lan- guages ...
... present many points of resemblance , —so many indeed that we are driven to the conclusion that these languages have proceeded from a common source . This collection of languages we call the Indo - European or Aryan Family of Lan- guages ...
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