The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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... belong to different arts and crafts and sciences , and are used by the men who follow those arts and crafts and sciences and by nobody else . Thus the doctor employs hundreds of technical words not used by the rest of us ; then there ...
... belong to different arts and crafts and sciences , and are used by the men who follow those arts and crafts and sciences and by nobody else . Thus the doctor employs hundreds of technical words not used by the rest of us ; then there ...
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... belong to this stock , some of which resemble English more closely than others . Dutch , Flemish , German , Ice- landic , Norwegian , Swedish , Danish , are all of them Teutonic 1 See Max Müller's Lectures on the Science of Language ...
... belong to this stock , some of which resemble English more closely than others . Dutch , Flemish , German , Ice- landic , Norwegian , Swedish , Danish , are all of them Teutonic 1 See Max Müller's Lectures on the Science of Language ...
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... belong the Latin , from which we have borrowed largely , and the modern representatives of the Latin , -Italian , French , Spanish , - Romance languages as they are called , Romance because they come from a Roman source . Then again ...
... belong the Latin , from which we have borrowed largely , and the modern representatives of the Latin , -Italian , French , Spanish , - Romance languages as they are called , Romance because they come from a Roman source . Then again ...
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... belong to this family . These languages fall into two groups . One group is the Indian , which includes Sanskrit , a dead language with an important literature ; the modern dialects of India which are sprung from Sanskrit , such as ...
... belong to this family . These languages fall into two groups . One group is the Indian , which includes Sanskrit , a dead language with an important literature ; the modern dialects of India which are sprung from Sanskrit , such as ...
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... belong to the Personal Pronouns by origin , but have become purely adjectival in force . ( 5 ) Thou is used only in addressing God and in the flights of poetry or rhetoric . But half a century ago the Quakers employed thou and thee in ...
... belong to the Personal Pronouns by origin , but have become purely adjectival in force . ( 5 ) Thou is used only in addressing God and in the flights of poetry or rhetoric . But half a century ago the Quakers employed thou and thee in ...
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action Adjuncts adverb alphabet antecedent applied apposition assertion auxiliary verbs Britons called CHAPTER complete Complex Sentence compound conjugation conjunction consonants construction dative denote derivation diphthongal distinction employed ending English Grammar English language English origin equivalent Etymology examples express feminine following sentences following words French gender genitive German Gerund Give Greek horse illustrate Imperative Mood Indefinite indicative Indirect Object infinitive mood inflexion Intransitive Keltic language Latin words letters limiting mark meaning modern English neuter Norman noun or pronoun noun-clause occur Old English Parse passive Past Participle Past Tense person phrase Pleonasm plural possessive Predicate preposition present principal clause pronunciation relation relative pronoun represented Roman sentence contains signifies Sing singular sometimes sonant speak speech stands Strong Verbs subjunctive mood subordinate clause suffix superlative surd syllable Syntax Teutonic thou tive town transitive verb voice vowel vowel sounds Weak Verbs write written