First work in English: grammar and composition taught by a comparative study of equivalent formsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1875 - 352 páginas |
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Página viii
... matter of Rhetoric ; yet the purely grammatical points involved are of con- siderable importance . It forms the antithesis to Ellipsis . The THIRD PART is concerned with THE SIMPLE and THE ABSTRUSE in language . It takes us over the ...
... matter of Rhetoric ; yet the purely grammatical points involved are of con- siderable importance . It forms the antithesis to Ellipsis . The THIRD PART is concerned with THE SIMPLE and THE ABSTRUSE in language . It takes us over the ...
Página ix
... matters as the simpler interchanges of adjectival and adverbial adjuncts . Ellipsis may be studied either in order of treatment or as cases occur among the Interchanges . By " Parsing " I mean such an account of a word as goes a very ...
... matters as the simpler interchanges of adjectival and adverbial adjuncts . Ellipsis may be studied either in order of treatment or as cases occur among the Interchanges . By " Parsing " I mean such an account of a word as goes a very ...
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... matter . 6. The reviewer's ( our ) readers will probably infer from what the reviewer has said , that this book has disappointed the reviewer . 7. This is the way the person addressed always damps the speaker's girls and the speaker ...
... matter . 6. The reviewer's ( our ) readers will probably infer from what the reviewer has said , that this book has disappointed the reviewer . 7. This is the way the person addressed always damps the speaker's girls and the speaker ...
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... matter ; and this deputation was heard at the bar of the Commons . 7. The month was August , and in the middle of August was my own birthday . 8. Three distinct herds were concealed in the jungle , and the united numbers of these herds ...
... matter ; and this deputation was heard at the bar of the Commons . 7. The month was August , and in the middle of August was my own birthday . 8. Three distinct herds were concealed in the jungle , and the united numbers of these herds ...
Página 49
... matter little , if anything , which form we prefer to employ . But , in most cases , the advanced student will be able to point to superiority or failure as regards bringing out nice shades of meaning . Different ways of expression ...
... matter little , if anything , which form we prefer to employ . But , in most cases , the advanced student will be able to point to superiority or failure as regards bringing out nice shades of meaning . Different ways of expression ...
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Adjective Clause replaced Adjective Phrase adjunct Adverbial Clause ADVERBIAL PHRASE adverbial substitutes army battle of Sedgemoor cause Co-ordinate Sentence common Compare conjunction danger death demonstrative pronoun diligent ellipsis elliptical clauses enemy England English equivalent examples EXERCISE expected father favour force Gerund give given hath hear heart horse implied Infinitive interchange king land lives Lord meaning mind nature never night Noun Clause NOUN PHRASE NOUN replaced object Parliament person PLEONASM points back possess predicate prince prisoner Pronoun with preposition proper relative pupil Queen reference regarded relative clause Relative Pronoun replaced by ADJECTIVE replaced by ADVERBIAL replaced by CO-ORDINATE replaced by NOUN replaced by Participle restrictive river Robert the Bruce ship soldiers soon speak speech spoke stands statement thee things thou tion Tom lost transitive verb verb vocables whence whereby wherein whither words
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