The Elements of English GrammarUniversity Press, 1897 - 288 Seiten |
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... pass into Jutland , which is part of Denmark . The south of Jut - land was probably the home of the Jutes . If we move southwards again into Holstein , we find on the west coast two rivers forming respectively its northern and southern ...
... pass into Jutland , which is part of Denmark . The south of Jut - land was probably the home of the Jutes . If we move southwards again into Holstein , we find on the west coast two rivers forming respectively its northern and southern ...
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... pass months or years or a life - time without bringing into our sentences such words as regularise , generalise , secondary . We should find it a trouble- some business to make a sentence ten words long without using a single native ...
... pass months or years or a life - time without bringing into our sentences such words as regularise , generalise , secondary . We should find it a trouble- some business to make a sentence ten words long without using a single native ...
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... pass on to treat of the grammar of the English language ; and first let us inquire what we mean by Grammar . 33. We can speak a language , or we can write a language , or we can both speak and write a language . All languages were ...
... pass on to treat of the grammar of the English language ; and first let us inquire what we mean by Grammar . 33. We can speak a language , or we can write a language , or we can both speak and write a language . All languages were ...
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... pass on to consider words themselves . We shall show that the words contained in the vocabulary of our language may be arranged in classes according to their meaning , as nouns , verbs , prepositions , etc. Then we shall inquire what ...
... pass on to consider words themselves . We shall show that the words contained in the vocabulary of our language may be arranged in classes according to their meaning , as nouns , verbs , prepositions , etc. Then we shall inquire what ...
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... pass our lives and express our- selves only in prose . We may conceive that an entire nation expressed itself only in prose , and had never expressed itself in anything else . But as soon as a language presents us with compositions 34 ...
... pass our lives and express our- selves only in prose . We may conceive that an entire nation expressed itself only in prose , and had never expressed itself in anything else . But as soon as a language presents us with compositions 34 ...
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action Adjuncts adverb alphabet antecedent applied apposition assertion auxiliary verbs Britons called CHAPTER complete Complex Sentence compound conjugation conjunction consonants construction dative denote derivation diphthongal distinction employed ending English Grammar English language English origin equivalent Etymology examples express feminine following sentences following words French gender genitive German Gerund Give Greek horse illustrate Imperative Mood Indefinite indicative Indirect Object infinitive mood inflexion Intransitive Keltic language Latin words letters limiting mark meaning modern English neuter Norman noun or pronoun noun-clause occur Old English Parse passive Past Participle Past Tense person phrase Pleonasm plural possessive Predicate preposition present principal clause pronunciation relation relative pronoun represented Roman sentence contains signifies Sing singular sometimes sonant speak speech stands Strong Verbs subjunctive mood subordinate clause suffix superlative surd syllable Syntax Teutonic thou tive town transitive verb voice vowel vowel sounds Weak Verbs write written