The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1898 - 304 pages |
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Alfred Slater West. PRI W45 First Edition 1893 . Reprinted 1894 , 1895 , 1897 New Edition 1898 Eng . 11-22-00 7 PREFACE . HIS book contains the Elements of English 37137.
Alfred Slater West. PRI W45 First Edition 1893 . Reprinted 1894 , 1895 , 1897 New Edition 1898 Eng . 11-22-00 7 PREFACE . HIS book contains the Elements of English 37137.
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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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... containing , however , a certain amount of Keltic , for the Gauls were a Keltic race , though they adopted the speech of their Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise ...
... containing , however , a certain amount of Keltic , for the Gauls were a Keltic race , though they adopted the speech of their Roman conquerors . So the French influence upon our English tongue is really a Latin influence in disguise ...
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... contains more words of Latin than of native origin . In saying this we mean that , if we take a dictionary and count up the total number of words , we shall find that Latin has furnished us with more than we obtained from our English ...
... contains more words of Latin than of native origin . In saying this we mean that , if we take a dictionary and count up the total number of words , we shall find that Latin has furnished us with more than we obtained from our English ...
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... containing six - and - twenty words , the Latin element is altogether absent . Now , how is it that the dictionary proportion of Latin words in English and the proportion in use are so different ? Because ( 1 ) in the dictionary every ...
... containing six - and - twenty words , the Latin element is altogether absent . Now , how is it that the dictionary proportion of Latin words in English and the proportion in use are so different ? Because ( 1 ) in the dictionary every ...
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