The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... beginnings of general education in this country , speech has been a matter of public concern , and it has been made the ... beginning of the modern era , the culture of the world has been becoming more and more a literary culture . Ours ...
... beginnings of general education in this country , speech has been a matter of public concern , and it has been made the ... beginning of the modern era , the culture of the world has been becoming more and more a literary culture . Ours ...
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... beginnings in the use of the language . But does even the most expert person know all there is to be known about English ? Can nurture put him in absolute command of all the possibilities of the language ? Certainly no person of ...
... beginnings in the use of the language . But does even the most expert person know all there is to be known about English ? Can nurture put him in absolute command of all the possibilities of the language ? Certainly no person of ...
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... is for this reason that the discussion of them has been placed at the very beginning of this book as something implicit in all that may be said later . II ENGLISH TODAY If one were asked what the English 14 NATURE AND NURTURE.
... is for this reason that the discussion of them has been placed at the very beginning of this book as something implicit in all that may be said later . II ENGLISH TODAY If one were asked what the English 14 NATURE AND NURTURE.
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... beginnings , the language of mankind was not made in committees and conventions . It grew , we may say , when men were sleeping , when they knew it not . And then after the process was completed , they awoke to the fact that they had a ...
... beginnings , the language of mankind was not made in committees and conventions . It grew , we may say , when men were sleeping , when they knew it not . And then after the process was completed , they awoke to the fact that they had a ...
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... beginning of the distinctions that must be made in the meaning of the term " Latin . " How many varieties or dialects of popular Latin were there ? It is an obvious and a sufficient answer to this question to say that there must have ...
... beginning of the distinctions that must be made in the meaning of the term " Latin . " How many varieties or dialects of popular Latin were there ? It is an obvious and a sufficient answer to this question to say that there must have ...
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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