The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... plural subject , or a wrong form of a past tense , done for did , seen for saw , or says you was , or them men , or does any one of the many regrettable things which the speaker on the popular level may un- concernedly do , these forms ...
... plural subject , or a wrong form of a past tense , done for did , seen for saw , or says you was , or them men , or does any one of the many regrettable things which the speaker on the popular level may un- concernedly do , these forms ...
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... plural . In the earlier periods of the Germanic languages , as in certain other languages , a dual was also formally recognized . Even the dual , however , does not exhaust the logical possibilities , and besides a singular for one , a ...
... plural . In the earlier periods of the Germanic languages , as in certain other languages , a dual was also formally recognized . Even the dual , however , does not exhaust the logical possibilities , and besides a singular for one , a ...
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... plural , since a word in the singular number bears no mark to indicate that it refers to one object and only the plural may carry with it a distinguishing mark of the plural . The plural , therefore , with its clearly defined logical ...
... plural , since a word in the singular number bears no mark to indicate that it refers to one object and only the plural may carry with it a distinguishing mark of the plural . The plural , therefore , with its clearly defined logical ...
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... plural " meant would ex- press the thought in the same way as anybody else . Each act of language at the moment of its performance is an individual act , designed to secure intelligibility , not to ] illustrate a grammatical law . But ...
... plural " meant would ex- press the thought in the same way as anybody else . Each act of language at the moment of its performance is an individual act , designed to secure intelligibility , not to ] illustrate a grammatical law . But ...
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... plural subjects take plural verbs , or that nouns form their plurals in s , or that charity means the giving of alms , or some other of the almost numberless regularities of the language . Having made an observation of this kind , he ...
... plural subjects take plural verbs , or that nouns form their plurals in s , or that charity means the giving of alms , or some other of the almost numberless regularities of the language . Having made an observation of this kind , he ...
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acquired adjective adverbs Anglo-Saxon artist become called Celts century Chaucer colloquial common consonant correctness cultivated custom dative definition dialect dictionary distinction elements England English language English speech English word etymology example existence experience expression fact feeling formal forms of speech free verse French gender Germanic languages guage habits human idiom Indo-European languages Indo-European parent speech inflectional intelligible kind Latin less linguistic literary literature logical matter meaning merely Middle English mind Modern English mood nature notion noun origin perhaps period person phonetic phrase plural poet poetry popular possessive possible practical present preterite pronoun pronounced pronunciation prose purist question reason regular result rhythm rules Saxon sense sentence Shakspere simple singular social sounds speak speaker spelling split infinitive strong verbs structure student style syllable tense term things thought tion traditional unity verb verse vocabulary vowel weak inflection whole writing
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Seite 470 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Seite 471 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ; The voice I heard this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown : Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Seite 506 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!
Seite 455 - To this I reply, that a rustic's language, purified from all provincialism and grossness, and so far re-constructed as to be made consistent with the rules of grammar, (which are, in essence, no other than the laws of universal logic applied to Psychological materials,) will not differ from the language of any other man of...
Seite 515 - ... a sort of cloistral refuge, from a certain vulgarity in the actual world. A perfect poem like Lycidas, a perfect fiction like Esmond, the perfect handling of a theory like Newman's Idea of a University, has for them something of the uses of a religious "retreat.
Seite 502 - John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen.
Seite 426 - Style in all its varieties, reserved or opulent, terse, abundant, musical, stimulant, academic, so long as each is really characteristic or expressive, finds thus its justification, the sumptuous good taste of Cicero being as truly the man himself, and not another, justified, yet insured inalienably to him, thereby, as would have been his portrait by Raffaelle, in full consular splendour, on his ivory chair.
Seite 507 - Be proud! for she is saved, and all have helped to save her! She that lifts up the manhood of the poor, She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind!
Seite 426 - The one word for the one thing, the one thought, amid the multitude of words, terms, that might just do: the problem of style was there ! — the unique word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, essay, or song, absolutely proper to the single mental presentation or vision within. In that perfect justice, over and above the many contingent and removable beauties with which beautiful style may charm us, but which it can exist without...
Seite 505 - Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashcst him again to earth: — there let him lay.