An English Grammar: For the Use of High School, Academy, and College ClassesAmerican book Company, 1895 - 349 страници |
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... given to show the student that he is dealing with the facts of the language , and not with the theories of grammarians . It is also suggested that in preparing written exer- cises the student use English classics instead of “ making up ...
... given to show the student that he is dealing with the facts of the language , and not with the theories of grammarians . It is also suggested that in preparing written exer- cises the student use English classics instead of “ making up ...
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... given data . It is not the grammarian's business to " correct : " it is simply to record and to arrange the usages of language , and to point the way to the arbiters of usage in all disputed cases . Free expression within the lines of ...
... given data . It is not the grammarian's business to " correct : " it is simply to record and to arrange the usages of language , and to point the way to the arbiters of usage in all disputed cases . Free expression within the lines of ...
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... given in answer to the question , What is grammar ? may be shown by the following : English grammar is a description of the usages of the English language by good speakers and writers of the present day . - WHITNEY . A description or ...
... given in answer to the question , What is grammar ? may be shown by the following : English grammar is a description of the usages of the English language by good speakers and writers of the present day . - WHITNEY . A description or ...
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... given will be substantiated by quotations from the leading or " standard " litera- ture of modern times ; that is , from the eighteenth century on . This literary English is considered the foundation on which grammar must rest . Here ...
... given will be substantiated by quotations from the leading or " standard " litera- ture of modern times ; that is , from the eighteenth century on . This literary English is considered the foundation on which grammar must rest . Here ...
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... given for common applies more strictly to class nouns . ever , be correctly used for another group of nouns detailed below ; for they are common nouns in the sense that the names apply to every particle of similar substance , instead of ...
... given for common applies more strictly to class nouns . ever , be correctly used for another group of nouns detailed below ; for they are common nouns in the sense that the names apply to every particle of similar substance , instead of ...
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abstract nouns ADDISON adverbs antecedent apposition belong Bring up sentences BULWER BURKE BYRON called CARLYLE choose chosen Coleridge common comparative complement compound connection coördinate dependent clauses DICKENS direct object EMERSON equivalent example Exercise express action feminine Find sentences following sentences gender gerund GOLDSMITH HAWTHORNE hence Imperative Mood indefinite relatives Indicative Mood infinitive inflected interrogative intransitive IRVING kind KINGSLEY language literary English MACAULAY masculine meaning Middle English modify nature neuter nominative Old English parsing past participle past tense perfect definite person or thing personal pronouns plural possessive predicate preposition Present Tense QUINCEY refer RELATIVE PRONOUNS RUSKIN SCOTT sentences containing SHAKESPEARE simple sentence singular sometimes speak spoken English stand Subjunctive Mood subordinate conjunctions superlative syntax tell tences THACKERAY thee third person thou thought tion tive transitive verb usage usually verbal weak verb word groups WORDSWORTH
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