Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... readers whose wants it has been written to supply . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , a different choice of materials would often have been made , and the materials chosen would have been treated in a ...
... readers whose wants it has been written to supply . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , a different choice of materials would often have been made , and the materials chosen would have been treated in a ...
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... reader into thinking that Prosody has to do with prose , for prose is just what Prosody does not deal with . Prosody has to do with Verse , with compositions in metre . Now it is clear that Prosody is not an essential department of ...
... reader into thinking that Prosody has to do with prose , for prose is just what Prosody does not deal with . Prosody has to do with Verse , with compositions in metre . Now it is clear that Prosody is not an essential department of ...
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... reader must keep clearly in mind the fact that we are dealing with elementary sounds , not with our way of writing them . Owing to the deficiencies of our alphabet we are obliged to use combinations of two letters , -digraphs , as ...
... reader must keep clearly in mind the fact that we are dealing with elementary sounds , not with our way of writing them . Owing to the deficiencies of our alphabet we are obliged to use combinations of two letters , -digraphs , as ...
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... reader will observe that these classes are not mutually exclusive . Thus , for example , m is both labial and nasal , ʼn dental and nasal , ƒ and v dental as well as labial . 51. Enumeration of Vowel - Sounds . Vowel- sounds are either ...
... reader will observe that these classes are not mutually exclusive . Thus , for example , m is both labial and nasal , ʼn dental and nasal , ƒ and v dental as well as labial . 51. Enumeration of Vowel - Sounds . Vowel- sounds are either ...
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... reader may have felt surprised at finding in the list of short vowel - sounds the o of pillow . That this o differs from the o in pot is obvious enough , but he may have been inclined to identify it with the o of foe . As we have just ...
... reader may have felt surprised at finding in the list of short vowel - sounds the o of pillow . That this o differs from the o in pot is obvious enough , but he may have been inclined to identify it with the o of foe . As we have just ...
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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