Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... common words borrowed from miscellaneous sources : Modern French - bouquet , etiquette , programme . Italian - bandit , grotto , regatta . Spanish - armada , cigar , don . Portuguese - caste , molasses , verandah . Modern German ...
... common words borrowed from miscellaneous sources : Modern French - bouquet , etiquette , programme . Italian - bandit , grotto , regatta . Spanish - armada , cigar , don . Portuguese - caste , molasses , verandah . Modern German ...
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... common use which most nearly answer to the following : -expansion , construction , ridiculous , fortitude , depression , depart , transgression , elevation , probability , virtuous . 7. Of the elements composing the English vocabulary ...
... common use which most nearly answer to the following : -expansion , construction , ridiculous , fortitude , depression , depart , transgression , elevation , probability , virtuous . 7. Of the elements composing the English vocabulary ...
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... common source . Suppose that many of the nations of Europe and Asia are descended from a tribe which existed some thousands of years ago . Suppose that , as this tribe increased in numbers , it became a difficult matter to supply the ...
... common source . Suppose that many of the nations of Europe and Asia are descended from a tribe which existed some thousands of years ago . Suppose that , as this tribe increased in numbers , it became a difficult matter to supply the ...
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... common source . This collection of languages we call the Indo - European or Aryan Family of Lan- guages . 26. It is believed that three or four thousand years ago there lived , somewhere between the Hindu - Kush mountains and the ...
... common source . This collection of languages we call the Indo - European or Aryan Family of Lan- guages . 26. It is believed that three or four thousand years ago there lived , somewhere between the Hindu - Kush mountains and the ...
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... common blunder must be avoided of supposing that rhyme is the same thing as verse , or that poetry is the same thing as either . Verse is the name applied to the arrangement of words in metre . In modern English verse , this arrangement ...
... common blunder must be avoided of supposing that rhyme is the same thing as verse , or that poetry is the same thing as either . Verse is the name applied to the arrangement of words in metre . In modern English verse , this arrangement ...
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