The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... English is not limited merely to the spoken word . From the beginning of the modern era , the culture of the world has been becoming more and more a literary culture . Ours might well be called a pen and paper civilization . In all this ...
... English is not limited merely to the spoken word . From the beginning of the modern era , the culture of the world has been becoming more and more a literary culture . Ours might well be called a pen and paper civilization . In all this ...
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... modern mind . It would be delightful , as Plato proposes , if one could arrive at ultimate truth by the way of this perfect language of the world's golden age . The law - giver as he made language made it to name the objects of thought ...
... modern mind . It would be delightful , as Plato proposes , if one could arrive at ultimate truth by the way of this perfect language of the world's golden age . The law - giver as he made language made it to name the objects of thought ...
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... modern study of the history of individual languages . One of the main results of this study has been the establishment of the notion of the so - called families of language . To con- tinue the figure contained in the word " family ...
... modern study of the history of individual languages . One of the main results of this study has been the establishment of the notion of the so - called families of language . To con- tinue the figure contained in the word " family ...
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... English meaning of motion , not of stationary position , as it may still have in certain Modern English constructions , as when a ship stands out to sea , or in the command Stand by to go about , or when one is bidden to stand from ...
... English meaning of motion , not of stationary position , as it may still have in certain Modern English constructions , as when a ship stands out to sea , or in the command Stand by to go about , or when one is bidden to stand from ...
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... English through Middle to Modern English , however , the feeling for a fixed sentence word order became so firmly established , with three almost invariable positions , subject , verb , and then object , that this sentence was made over ...
... English through Middle to Modern English , however , the feeling for a fixed sentence word order became so firmly established , with three almost invariable positions , subject , verb , and then object , that this sentence was made over ...
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accepted acquired adjective Anglo-Saxon appear authority become beginning called carried century character common completely concerned correctness cultivated definition determined dialect dictionary direct distinction elements English language example existence experience expression fact familiar feeling follow formal forms French gender Germanic give grammar habits human important indicated individual Indo-European inflectional intelligible interest kind knowledge Latin learned less limits linguistic literary literature living logical matter meaning merely mind Modern English nature never noun object observation origin past perhaps period person phrase plural poetry popular possessive possible practical present pronounced pronunciation prose question reason regarded regular relation remain respect result rules seems sense sentence simple social sounds speak speaker speech spelling structure student style term things thought tion traditional verb vocabulary vowel whole words writing