The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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Page 4
... living in the interior of the country , where the ground is higher . What we call to - day the ' German ' language is High German . Dutch , Flemish , spoken in parts of Belgium , and Frisian , still spoken in the districts from which ...
... living in the interior of the country , where the ground is higher . What we call to - day the ' German ' language is High German . Dutch , Flemish , spoken in parts of Belgium , and Frisian , still spoken in the districts from which ...
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... living , is likely to be a dull fellow , uninteresting to himself and to his neighbours . Now to English - speaking people the English language ought to be an attractive subject of study . When we think of the series of great writers ...
... living , is likely to be a dull fellow , uninteresting to himself and to his neighbours . Now to English - speaking people the English language ought to be an attractive subject of study . When we think of the series of great writers ...
Page 96
... living things and of personified objects , though our usage does not entirely conform to this principle : we use the form in ' s in such phrases as ' a year's absence , ' ' a month's delay , ' though there is no personification to ...
... living things and of personified objects , though our usage does not entirely conform to this principle : we use the form in ' s in such phrases as ' a year's absence , ' ' a month's delay , ' though there is no personification to ...
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... living beings and of personified objects . The preposition of enables us to express the rela- tions indicated by the old genitive : e.g. partitive relation , ' door of the house , ' ' half of his fortune ' ; adjectival relation , ' act ...
... living beings and of personified objects . The preposition of enables us to express the rela- tions indicated by the old genitive : e.g. partitive relation , ' door of the house , ' ' half of his fortune ' ; adjectival relation , ' act ...
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... living ' is equivalent to ' I saw him in London : he was living there . ' The clauses in italics make fresh statements and are not limitations of John and of London . They must therefore be analysed as principal sentences . Λ 9. A ...
... living ' is equivalent to ' I saw him in London : he was living there . ' The clauses in italics make fresh statements and are not limitations of John and of London . They must therefore be analysed as principal sentences . Λ 9. A ...
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