The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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... force of the passage has gone , and the sentence reads as if it were taken from the pages of a third - rate novelist . On the other hand , the extract from Matthew Arnold abounds in Latin words , because he is dealing with a scientific ...
... force of the passage has gone , and the sentence reads as if it were taken from the pages of a third - rate novelist . On the other hand , the extract from Matthew Arnold abounds in Latin words , because he is dealing with a scientific ...
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... force , ' a water - fall , ' as in ' Stockgill - force , ' are other examples of Danish geographical names . To the Danes we owe also the word are , which took the place of the English form of the 3rd person plural of the verb am ...
... force , ' a water - fall , ' as in ' Stockgill - force , ' are other examples of Danish geographical names . To the Danes we owe also the word are , which took the place of the English form of the 3rd person plural of the verb am ...
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... force his way by genius , vigour , and precipitance . The old man deifies prudence . The youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance . Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth , and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of ...
... force his way by genius , vigour , and precipitance . The old man deifies prudence . The youth commits himself to magnanimity and chance . Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth , and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of ...
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... force - pump or a common - pump ) , but we cannot use- fully reduce the number of classes of words in grammar below eight , and these eight different classes we call the Parts of Speech . 65. The Parts of Speech are the classes into ...
... force - pump or a common - pump ) , but we cannot use- fully reduce the number of classes of words in grammar below eight , and these eight different classes we call the Parts of Speech . 65. The Parts of Speech are the classes into ...
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... force of a conjunction . So again the word stone has various functions in different sentences . In Stone him to death , ' it is a verb : in ' He threw a stone , ' it is a noun : in ' This is a stone fence , ' it is an adjective . Once ...
... force of a conjunction . So again the word stone has various functions in different sentences . In Stone him to death , ' it is a verb : in ' He threw a stone , ' it is a noun : in ' This is a stone fence , ' it is an adjective . Once ...
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