Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... Vocabulary III . The Indo - European or Aryan Family of Languages IV . The Divisions of Grammar ยท V. Elementary Sounds in English VI . Signs or Letters VII . Etymology VIII . Nouns IX . Inflexion of Nouns . I. Gender X. Inflexion of ...
... Vocabulary III . The Indo - European or Aryan Family of Languages IV . The Divisions of Grammar ยท V. Elementary Sounds in English VI . Signs or Letters VII . Etymology VIII . Nouns IX . Inflexion of Nouns . I. Gender X. Inflexion of ...
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... vocabulary . Hundreds of words were introduced and dropped , as there was no need of them : hundreds more remained . Very different was the way in which words of Latin origin came in at this time from the way in which they came in under ...
... vocabulary . Hundreds of words were introduced and dropped , as there was no need of them : hundreds more remained . Very different was the way in which words of Latin origin came in at this time from the way in which they came in under ...
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... vocabulary , and by the year 1400 French had ceased to be the speech of the nobility in England . The French lan- guage is in the main a form of Latin , though the Gauls were a Keltic race . 5. The Revival of Letters , or of Classical ...
... vocabulary , and by the year 1400 French had ceased to be the speech of the nobility in England . The French lan- guage is in the main a form of Latin , though the Gauls were a Keltic race . 5. The Revival of Letters , or of Classical ...
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... VOCABULARY . 13. In the previous chapter we mentioned the leading events in the history of our country which have ... vocabulary . Several words which were formerly supposed to have passed from Keltic into English are now known to have ...
... VOCABULARY . 13. In the previous chapter we mentioned the leading events in the history of our country which have ... vocabulary . Several words which were formerly supposed to have passed from Keltic into English are now known to have ...
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... vocabulary : 2. A few words handed down from the original Britons , or introduced through the Norman French : 3. A few borrowed from Welsh ( e.g. cromlech , flannel , flummery ) , from Irish ( e.g. fun , shamrock , shillelagh ) , and ...
... vocabulary : 2. A few words handed down from the original Britons , or introduced through the Norman French : 3. A few borrowed from Welsh ( e.g. cromlech , flannel , flummery ) , from Irish ( e.g. fun , shamrock , shillelagh ) , and ...
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