Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... thoughts as anybody else , and he said all that he had to say with about 15,000 words . Milton needed only half that number . An educated man of to - day has a vocabulary of some five or six thousand words . Two thousand suffice for an ...
... thoughts as anybody else , and he said all that he had to say with about 15,000 words . Milton needed only half that number . An educated man of to - day has a vocabulary of some five or six thousand words . Two thousand suffice for an ...
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... thoughts , and our thoughts are usually expressed in sentences , for the purposes of grammar we shall group the words of the language in classes according to their different functions in the sentences which we form with them to express ...
... thoughts , and our thoughts are usually expressed in sentences , for the purposes of grammar we shall group the words of the language in classes according to their different functions in the sentences which we form with them to express ...
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... thought , whether these objects of thought be things with life or without it , material or immaterial , real or imaginary . In the lan- guage of our definition , every object that we can think about , whether it have an existence or not ...
... thought , whether these objects of thought be things with life or without it , material or immaterial , real or imaginary . In the lan- guage of our definition , every object that we can think about , whether it have an existence or not ...
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... thought uppermost in our minds is the assembly as a whole , but we may say ' Parliament were all sixes and sevens , ' if we are thinking of the assembly as divided into different parties . 78 . Abstract and Concrete Nouns . Not that the ...
... thought uppermost in our minds is the assembly as a whole , but we may say ' Parliament were all sixes and sevens , ' if we are thinking of the assembly as divided into different parties . 78 . Abstract and Concrete Nouns . Not that the ...
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... thoughts from the boy's other qualities and can think and speak of his stupidity ; and then , abstracting our atten- tion from the other points of interest which he presents , we can think and speak of his fatness . The names of the ...
... thoughts from the boy's other qualities and can think and speak of his stupidity ; and then , abstracting our atten- tion from the other points of interest which he presents , we can think and speak of his fatness . The names of the ...
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