The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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Alfred Slater West. First Edition 1893 . Reprinted 1894 , 1895 , 1897 B1034973 ни PREFACE . HIS book contains the Elements of English Grammar The Divisions of Grammar.
Alfred Slater West. First Edition 1893 . Reprinted 1894 , 1895 , 1897 B1034973 ни PREFACE . HIS book contains the Elements of English Grammar The Divisions of Grammar.
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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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... containing , however , a certain amount of Keltic , for the Gauls were a Keltic race , though they adopted the speech of their Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise ...
... containing , however , a certain amount of Keltic , for the Gauls were a Keltic race , though they adopted the speech of their Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise ...
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... contains more words of Latin than of native origin . In saying this we mean that , if we take a dictionary and count up the total number of words , we shall find that Latin has furnished us with more than we obtained from our English ...
... contains more words of Latin than of native origin . In saying this we mean that , if we take a dictionary and count up the total number of words , we shall find that Latin has furnished us with more than we obtained from our English ...
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... contains a large Italic element , has received considerable additions to its vocabulary from the Hellenic source , and possesses a slight Keltic in- gredient . Thus four different stocks have contributed to its formation : it is a mixed ...
... contains a large Italic element , has received considerable additions to its vocabulary from the Hellenic source , and possesses a slight Keltic in- gredient . Thus four different stocks have contributed to its formation : it is a mixed ...
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