The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1898 - 304 pages |
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Page v
... Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers whose wants it has been written to supply . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , a different choice of materials would ...
... Language . Boys and girls from thirteen to seventeen years of age are the readers whose wants it has been written to supply . For a treatise intended to meet the requirements of older students , a different choice of materials would ...
Page vi
... hopeless residuum who have taken the whole of science ' for their aversion , -while he sketches for them the gradual growth of our language , or talks over with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , vi PREFACE .
... hopeless residuum who have taken the whole of science ' for their aversion , -while he sketches for them the gradual growth of our language , or talks over with them the difference between Common and Proper nouns , vi PREFACE .
Page viii
... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse , of Mr Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue , of Dr Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence , and of Prof. Skeat's Etymological Dic- tionary ...
... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse , of Mr Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue , of Dr Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence , and of Prof. Skeat's Etymological Dic- tionary ...
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... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse , of Mr Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue , of Dr Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence , and of Prof. Skeat's Etymological Dictionary ...
... Language , of Prof. Meiklejohn's English Language , of Dr Abbott's How to Parse , of Mr Hewitt's Manual of our Mother Tongue , of Dr Morris's Historical Outlines of English Accidence , and of Prof. Skeat's Etymological Dictionary ...
Page xi
... Languages IV . The Divisions of Grammar V. Elementary Sounds in English VI . Signs or Letters VII . Etymology VIII . Nouns IX . Inflexion of Nouns . I. Gender X. Inflexion of Nouns . II . Number XI . Inflexion of Nouns . XII ...
... Languages IV . The Divisions of Grammar V. Elementary Sounds in English VI . Signs or Letters VII . Etymology VIII . Nouns IX . Inflexion of Nouns . I. Gender X. Inflexion of Nouns . II . Number XI . Inflexion of Nouns . XII ...
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