The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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... mark , but people of Norway and Sweden also . Like the English they were a Teutonic race , but we call theirs the Scandinavian branch . 4. A.D. 1066 to 1400. The Normans were also origin- ally Scandinavians , but they had adopted the ...
... mark , but people of Norway and Sweden also . Like the English they were a Teutonic race , but we call theirs the Scandinavian branch . 4. A.D. 1066 to 1400. The Normans were also origin- ally Scandinavians , but they had adopted the ...
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... mark upon our language . But their influence is seen only in a few geographical names . This Latin element is sometimes called the Latin of the First Period . 16. In A.D. 597 , St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory to teach Christianity ...
... mark upon our language . But their influence is seen only in a few geographical names . This Latin element is sometimes called the Latin of the First Period . 16. In A.D. 597 , St Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory to teach Christianity ...
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... mark . At any rate we may safely say this , that for every word which the best educated man makes use of , there are at least ten , perhaps twenty , in the dictionary , which he never uses at all . And most of these are words of foreign ...
... mark . At any rate we may safely say this , that for every word which the best educated man makes use of , there are at least ten , perhaps twenty , in the dictionary , which he never uses at all . And most of these are words of foreign ...
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... marks of the Roman occupation of Britain : -castra , ' a camp ' ; colonia , ' a colony ' ; fossa , ' a ditch ' ; portus , ' a harbour ' ; strata , ' a paved road ' ; vallum , ' a rampart . ' Mention names in which these Latin words ...
... marks of the Roman occupation of Britain : -castra , ' a camp ' ; colonia , ' a colony ' ; fossa , ' a ditch ' ; portus , ' a harbour ' ; strata , ' a paved road ' ; vallum , ' a rampart . ' Mention names in which these Latin words ...
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... mark that difference we have written it zh , but it is not a com- pound of % + h ; it is really an elementary sound . The same remark is true of the sh in shine . We have no single letter or symbol to express it , but we ought to have ...
... mark that difference we have written it zh , but it is not a com- pound of % + h ; it is really an elementary sound . The same remark is true of the sh in shine . We have no single letter or symbol to express it , but we ought to have ...
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