Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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Page 16
... style will vary according to his subject . If he is writing on a philosophical subject , the proportion of Latin words must necessarily be high , because English will not provide him with the vocabulary which he requires . If he is ...
... style will vary according to his subject . If he is writing on a philosophical subject , the proportion of Latin words must necessarily be high , because English will not provide him with the vocabulary which he requires . If he is ...
Page 17
... style , we mean that he often prefers to use a Latin noun , verb , or adjective , when an English noun , verb , or adjective would express his meaning . The other words in his sentences are for the most part English and must be English ...
... style , we mean that he often prefers to use a Latin noun , verb , or adjective , when an English noun , verb , or adjective would express his meaning . The other words in his sentences are for the most part English and must be English ...
Page 32
... style , but it will help to make him a correct writer , and many of our masters of English style would have written better , if they had paid more attention to grammatical rules . If there- fore anybody is disposed to say that learning ...
... style , but it will help to make him a correct writer , and many of our masters of English style would have written better , if they had paid more attention to grammatical rules . If there- fore anybody is disposed to say that learning ...
Page 36
... style are appropriate to treatises on Composition or Rhetoric rather than to a treatise on Grammar , and the metrical arrangement of words is a matter of style . 41 . It will be convenient if we bring together the chief results which we ...
... style are appropriate to treatises on Composition or Rhetoric rather than to a treatise on Grammar , and the metrical arrangement of words is a matter of style . 41 . It will be convenient if we bring together the chief results which we ...
Page 59
... style , have the idea that the frequent use of ye for the and the addition of an e at the end of every word which ends in a consonant will convert 19th century Eng- lish into 9th century English . But this is a SIGNS OR LETTERS . 59.
... style , have the idea that the frequent use of ye for the and the addition of an e at the end of every word which ends in a consonant will convert 19th century Eng- lish into 9th century English . But this is a SIGNS OR LETTERS . 59.
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