The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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... , AVE MARIA LANE . Glasgow : 263 , ARGYLE STREET . Leipzig : F. A. BROCKHAUS . New York : THE MACMILLAN CO . Bombay : GEORGE BELL AND SONS . THE ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR BY ALFRED S. WEST , Constituents of the English Vocabulary.
... , AVE MARIA LANE . Glasgow : 263 , ARGYLE STREET . Leipzig : F. A. BROCKHAUS . New York : THE MACMILLAN CO . Bombay : GEORGE BELL AND SONS . THE ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR BY ALFRED S. WEST , Constituents of the English Vocabulary.
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Alfred Slater West. PREFACE . HIS book contains the Elements of English Grammar , TH it but it does not profess to be a complete manual of the English Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers ...
Alfred Slater West. PREFACE . HIS book contains the Elements of English Grammar , TH it but it does not profess to be a complete manual of the English Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers ...
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... English Grammar probably not more than one will ever read a page of any English author who wrote before the age of Elizabeth , it seems needlessly cruel to the remaining ninety - and - nine to inflict upon them the exhaustive study of ...
... English Grammar probably not more than one will ever read a page of any English author who wrote before the age of Elizabeth , it seems needlessly cruel to the remaining ninety - and - nine to inflict upon them the exhaustive study of ...
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... English Grammar and to Prof. Bain's Higher English Grammar . Use has been made also of Dr Gow's sugges- tive Method of English , of Dr Angus's Handbook of the English Tongue ( in which the principles of syntax are discussed with more ...
... English Grammar and to Prof. Bain's Higher English Grammar . Use has been made also of Dr Gow's sugges- tive Method of English , of Dr Angus's Handbook of the English Tongue ( in which the principles of syntax are discussed with more ...
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... English Vocabulary III . The Indo - European or Aryan Family of Languages IV . The Divisions of Grammar · V. Elementary Sounds in English VI . Signs or Letters VII . Etymology VIII . Nouns • · IX . Inflexion of Nouns . I. Gender X ...
... English Vocabulary III . The Indo - European or Aryan Family of Languages IV . The Divisions of Grammar · V. Elementary Sounds in English VI . Signs or Letters VII . Etymology VIII . Nouns • · IX . Inflexion of Nouns . I. Gender X ...
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