The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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... employ the word German in a narrower sense , to signify the language spoken to - day in Berlin and taught at school to English boys and girls who are said to be ' learning German . ' This German which is spoken at the present day in ...
... employ the word German in a narrower sense , to signify the language spoken to - day in Berlin and taught at school to English boys and girls who are said to be ' learning German . ' This German which is spoken at the present day in ...
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... employed twice as many words to express his thoughts as anybody else , and he said all that he had to say with about 15,000 words . Milton needed only half that number . An educated man of to - day has a vocabulary of some five or six ...
... employed twice as many words to express his thoughts as anybody else , and he said all that he had to say with about 15,000 words . Milton needed only half that number . An educated man of to - day has a vocabulary of some five or six ...
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... employ it in spelling other words , writing ' h & some ' for handsome and ' underst & ' for under- stand . The like criticism applies to the compound sound represented by j . The objection may be raised that , if x is rejected because ...
... employ it in spelling other words , writing ' h & some ' for handsome and ' underst & ' for under- stand . The like criticism applies to the compound sound represented by j . The objection may be raised that , if x is rejected because ...
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... employed a different symbol for every different number . Our means of numeration would in this case be of a very imperfect character . Now , although 100,000 distinct sounds may exist in English speech , these distinct sounds are formed ...
... employed a different symbol for every different number . Our means of numeration would in this case be of a very imperfect character . Now , although 100,000 distinct sounds may exist in English speech , these distinct sounds are formed ...
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... employed its proper sign for each of these sounds , it would be as easy a matter to spell a word when we had learnt our alphabet , as it is to write down a number when we have learnt the use of figures . Such a system of spelling would ...
... employed its proper sign for each of these sounds , it would be as easy a matter to spell a word when we had learnt our alphabet , as it is to write down a number when we have learnt the use of figures . Such a system of spelling would ...
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