The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1898 - 304 pages |
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Alfred Slater West. he may avoid ' the human too much . ' The things which have been deliberately left out of this small volume would have made a big book . When we reflect that of every hundred boys and girls now learning English ...
Alfred Slater West. he may avoid ' the human too much . ' The things which have been deliberately left out of this small volume would have made a big book . When we reflect that of every hundred boys and girls now learning English ...
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... things with which as slaves the Britons would have to do , words belonging to the farm or kitchen . Of these , darn , mop , pool , glen , are perhaps examples . But more of our Keltic words came to us through the Norman French ; for ...
... things with which as slaves the Britons would have to do , words belonging to the farm or kitchen . Of these , darn , mop , pool , glen , are perhaps examples . But more of our Keltic words came to us through the Norman French ; for ...
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... things . Let us picture to ourselves the influence which a missionary settle- ment would have to - day upon the language of a tribe of African savages . From the Christian teachers they would borrow such words as bible , hymn - book ...
... things . Let us picture to ourselves the influence which a missionary settle- ment would have to - day upon the language of a tribe of African savages . From the Christian teachers they would borrow such words as bible , hymn - book ...
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... things rendered the old vocabulary inadequate , and the fashionable study of classical authors showed where fresh words were to be found . For one who has learnt a little Latin , it is an easy matter to identify a Fourth - Period word ...
... things rendered the old vocabulary inadequate , and the fashionable study of classical authors showed where fresh words were to be found . For one who has learnt a little Latin , it is an easy matter to identify a Fourth - Period word ...
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... things nearest and dearest to us , the things which we have known from our childhood , are of English origin . Father and mother , house and home , rain , wind , day , night , sun , moon , —these are English words . And hence it is that ...
... things nearest and dearest to us , the things which we have known from our childhood , are of English origin . Father and mother , house and home , rain , wind , day , night , sun , moon , —these are English words . And hence it is that ...
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