The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... AUTHORITY 158 • • XIV . THE PURIST ATTITUDE XXI . XIII . THE MORALS OF GOOD ENGLISH XV . THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF ENGLISH XVI . WHAT IS GRAMMAR ? XVII . THE LANGUAGE AND THE PEOPLE . XVIII . STRUCTURAL CHANGES XX . THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY ...
... AUTHORITY 158 • • XIV . THE PURIST ATTITUDE XXI . XIII . THE MORALS OF GOOD ENGLISH XV . THE HISTORICAL STUDY OF ENGLISH XVI . WHAT IS GRAMMAR ? XVII . THE LANGUAGE AND THE PEOPLE . XVIII . STRUCTURAL CHANGES XX . THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY ...
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... authority , no matter how lofty or numerous his authorities , can never be an intelligent person . He may be a learned person , but to be intelligent he must follow his own and not somebody else's judgment always supposing of course ...
... authority , no matter how lofty or numerous his authorities , can never be an intelligent person . He may be a learned person , but to be intelligent he must follow his own and not somebody else's judgment always supposing of course ...
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... authority . The question to be considered here is naturally the character of the authority any English must enjoy before one can con- fidently affirm it to be English . What sanction must English speech receive before it can be included ...
... authority . The question to be considered here is naturally the character of the authority any English must enjoy before one can con- fidently affirm it to be English . What sanction must English speech receive before it can be included ...
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... , and the words comprising it would have as much authority and justification for their existence in the language as they have now . Dictionaries are in short merely a record of language after the event . They 48 A TOUCHSTONE FOR ENGLISH.
... , and the words comprising it would have as much authority and justification for their existence in the language as they have now . Dictionaries are in short merely a record of language after the event . They 48 A TOUCHSTONE FOR ENGLISH.
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... authority . Some- times convention is unsettled , as in the use of English sir and ma'am . Children are sometimes taught to say Yes , sir and Yes , ma'am to their elders , but an adult who should address a fellow adult in this way would ...
... authority . Some- times convention is unsettled , as in the use of English sir and ma'am . Children are sometimes taught to say Yes , sir and Yes , ma'am to their elders , but an adult who should address a fellow adult in this way would ...
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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