The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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Page 16
... describing an old man's feeling about his daughter's death , naturally uses an unmixed English diction as best suited to his purpose . How feeble a Latinized paraphrase would sound by the side of the simple English words which go home ...
... describing an old man's feeling about his daughter's death , naturally uses an unmixed English diction as best suited to his purpose . How feeble a Latinized paraphrase would sound by the side of the simple English words which go home ...
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... describe Dutch and Flemish as sister languages of English , and German and Norwegian as its first - cousins . Another stock of considerable interest to us is the Romanic , or Italic , since to this stock belong the Latin , from which we ...
... describe Dutch and Flemish as sister languages of English , and German and Norwegian as its first - cousins . Another stock of considerable interest to us is the Romanic , or Italic , since to this stock belong the Latin , from which we ...
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... describe what is the relation in which each word in the sentence stands to the rest . The part of grammar which treats of words when they are regarded in their relation to other words , — of words when they form parts of groups of other ...
... describe what is the relation in which each word in the sentence stands to the rest . The part of grammar which treats of words when they are regarded in their relation to other words , — of words when they form parts of groups of other ...
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... describing our language as an English and not as a Romance language . We now see that there is a further justification for so describing it in the fact that nearly all of the surviving inflexions , which constitute an important part of ...
... describing our language as an English and not as a Romance language . We now see that there is a further justification for so describing it in the fact that nearly all of the surviving inflexions , which constitute an important part of ...
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... promising young cricketers as ' youthful Graces . ' When parsing words thus employed , describe them as proper nouns used as if common . Note however that when we speak of ' the Browns ' or ' the 72 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... promising young cricketers as ' youthful Graces . ' When parsing words thus employed , describe them as proper nouns used as if common . Note however that when we speak of ' the Browns ' or ' the 72 ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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