The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 pages |
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... signify ' belonging to the German race , ' but if we said that English , or Dutch , or Flemish , was a ' German ' language , the term might be misleading , as we commonly employ the word German in a narrower sense , to signify the ...
... signify ' belonging to the German race , ' but if we said that English , or Dutch , or Flemish , was a ' German ' language , the term might be misleading , as we commonly employ the word German in a narrower sense , to signify the ...
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... signifies yes . The langue d'oil was the dialect in which people said oil for yes , as distinguished from the langue d'oc in which they said oc . This French language was in the main a form of Latin , containing , however , a certain ...
... signifies yes . The langue d'oil was the dialect in which people said oil for yes , as distinguished from the langue d'oc in which they said oc . This French language was in the main a form of Latin , containing , however , a certain ...
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... signifying that the people of whom they are used lived on the lowlands near the coast , or on the higher ground of the interior . Modern German is a High- German language . Then again the languages of Iceland , Norway , Sweden , and ...
... signifying that the people of whom they are used lived on the lowlands near the coast , or on the higher ground of the interior . Modern German is a High- German language . Then again the languages of Iceland , Norway , Sweden , and ...
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... signifies ' only , ' it is an adverb : in ' All but John were drowned , ' where but signifies ' except , ' it is a preposition : in ' There is no one but thinks you mad , ' but does the work of a relative pronoun with a negative ...
... signifies ' only , ' it is an adverb : in ' All but John were drowned , ' where but signifies ' except , ' it is a preposition : in ' There is no one but thinks you mad , ' but does the work of a relative pronoun with a negative ...
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... signifying ' Don't say but to me , ' ' Don't call me uncle . ' The sense indeed is plain , but such forms would be impossible in a synthetic or inflexional language like Latin . ( 1 . QUESTIONS . What parts of speech are the 66 ELEMENTS ...
... signifying ' Don't say but to me , ' ' Don't call me uncle . ' The sense indeed is plain , but such forms would be impossible in a synthetic or inflexional language like Latin . ( 1 . QUESTIONS . What parts of speech are the 66 ELEMENTS ...
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