The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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Page v
... questions which are discussed in larger works ; that other questions are touched upon , but not probed to the bottom ; that here and there a definition lacks completeness , logical accuracy being sacrificed to intelligibility ; and that ...
... questions which are discussed in larger works ; that other questions are touched upon , but not probed to the bottom ; that here and there a definition lacks completeness , logical accuracy being sacrificed to intelligibility ; and that ...
Page vii
... Questions at the end of the Chapters , most have been chosen from the Cambridge Local Examination Papers of the last twenty years ; the Oxford Local Exami- nation Papers and the Papers of the Royal College of Preceptors have furnished ...
... Questions at the end of the Chapters , most have been chosen from the Cambridge Local Examination Papers of the last twenty years ; the Oxford Local Exami- nation Papers and the Papers of the Royal College of Preceptors have furnished ...
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... questions an answer ought to be given here : ( 1 ) Who were these settlers ? ( 2 ) Where did they come from ? ( 1 ) They were Teutonic tribes . The people , whom we call Germans , call themselves Deutsch . The word is familiar to us in ...
... questions an answer ought to be given here : ( 1 ) Who were these settlers ? ( 2 ) Where did they come from ? ( 1 ) They were Teutonic tribes . The people , whom we call Germans , call themselves Deutsch . The word is familiar to us in ...
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... question no decided answer can be given , nor is it a matter of much importance to settle the point one way or the other . When Saxons and Angles were united in England against a common enemy , they called themselves ' Englishmen . ' If ...
... question no decided answer can be given , nor is it a matter of much importance to settle the point one way or the other . When Saxons and Angles were united in England against a common enemy , they called themselves ' Englishmen . ' If ...
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... question , — What sorts of words do we owe to these events in our history ? The Keltic 14. I. Keltic words in English . words in our ordinary English speech are few . Of Keltic names of places there are many , such as Aber- , Pen ...
... question , — What sorts of words do we owe to these events in our history ? The Keltic 14. I. Keltic words in English . words in our ordinary English speech are few . Of Keltic names of places there are many , such as Aber- , Pen ...
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