The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1898 - 304 pages |
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Alfred Slater West. 7 PREFACE . HIS book contains the Elements of English Grammar , THE but it does not profess to be a complete manual of the English Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers ...
Alfred Slater West. 7 PREFACE . HIS book contains the Elements of English Grammar , THE but it does not profess to be a complete manual of the English Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers ...
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... English Grammar probably not more than one will ever read a page of any English author who wrote before the age of Elizabeth , it seems ... language , or talks over with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , vi PREFACE .
... English Grammar probably not more than one will ever read a page of any English author who wrote before the age of Elizabeth , it seems ... language , or talks over with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , vi PREFACE .
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... English , of Dr Angus's Handbook of the English Tongue ( in which the principles of syntax are discussed with more than the ordinary detail ) , of Mr Low's English Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How ...
... English , of Dr Angus's Handbook of the English Tongue ( in which the principles of syntax are discussed with more than the ordinary detail ) , of Mr Low's English Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How ...
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... English Grammar lesson will prove to be a means of education and not simply ... English Grammar and to Prof. Bain's Higher English Grammar . Use has been made ... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to ...
... English Grammar lesson will prove to be a means of education and not simply ... English Grammar and to Prof. Bain's Higher English Grammar . Use has been made ... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to ...
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... English language . When , in our flights of rhetoric or poetry , we declare that we glory in the name of Britons , or sing that Britons never shall be slaves , our intentions are patriotic , but our language is apt to be misleading ...
... English language . When , in our flights of rhetoric or poetry , we declare that we glory in the name of Britons , or sing that Britons never shall be slaves , our intentions are patriotic , but our language is apt to be misleading ...
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