Text-book of English Grammar: A Treatise on the Etymology and Syntax of the English Language ... : for the Use of Students in Training Colleges and the Upper Classes in National and Other Elementary SchoolsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848 - 190 страници |
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... sometimes appear to overrate it . But the comparative merits of the two languages have nothing to do with determining the propriety of assimilating one to the other in declensions and conjugations . At the same time , it should not be ...
... sometimes appear to overrate it . But the comparative merits of the two languages have nothing to do with determining the propriety of assimilating one to the other in declensions and conjugations . At the same time , it should not be ...
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... sometimes over - rated , yet certainly deserves to be taken notice of ' for what it has done to illus- trate our language by ascertaining the grammar of it . ' White adds , " All our efforts of this kind seem to have been rendered ...
... sometimes over - rated , yet certainly deserves to be taken notice of ' for what it has done to illus- trate our language by ascertaining the grammar of it . ' White adds , " All our efforts of this kind seem to have been rendered ...
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... sometimes called a semivowel ; as in the words wisdom , youth , reward , beyond , twice , where . Some respectable grammarians maintain that wand y are always vowels ; and , with respect to w , at least , a comparison of the diphthongal ...
... sometimes called a semivowel ; as in the words wisdom , youth , reward , beyond , twice , where . Some respectable grammarians maintain that wand y are always vowels ; and , with respect to w , at least , a comparison of the diphthongal ...
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... sometimes difficult , however , to decide , with respect to a noun , whether to call it proper or common ; as there is a tendency in proper nouns to approximate to the character of common , and conversely . " He Thus : " I saw a number ...
... sometimes difficult , however , to decide , with respect to a noun , whether to call it proper or common ; as there is a tendency in proper nouns to approximate to the character of common , and conversely . " He Thus : " I saw a number ...
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... sometimes called Abstract ; but there is between them and the stricter kind of abstract nouns a distinction not easily definable . Man is in a certain sense an abstract term ; but Humanity implies a higher degree of abstraction . See ...
... sometimes called Abstract ; but there is between them and the stricter kind of abstract nouns a distinction not easily definable . Man is in a certain sense an abstract term ; but Humanity implies a higher degree of abstraction . See ...
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3rd pers adverb antecedent apposition assertion auxiliary auxiliary verb Ben Jonson Brightland called CHAP clause common noun comparative and superlative compound verb conjugation conjunction copula Defective verbs definition denoting diphthong discourse distinction distinguished elementary employed English Grammar English language etymological example EXERCISES expression gender governed Gram grammarians Horne Tooke IMPERATIVE MODE imperfect implies infinitive mode inflexion instance J. S. Mill John language Latin letter Lond meaning modified neut neuter nominative noun or pronoun object parsing passive voice past tense Perf perfect participle personal verb persuading phrase plur plural possessive possessive adjective preceding predicate preposition principal verb pron pronominal proper referred relation relative relative pronoun Rule Shakspeare signifies simple sentences sing singular sometimes sound speak speech subj subjoined Subjunctive substantive verb syllable syntactical Syntax term termination thing thou tive transitive verb treatise verbal vowel words
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