The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... intelligible order the tangle of opinion and of unconscious habit which is present in the minds of English speaking persons in the practical command of their native idiom . The field under observation has been the use of the native ...
... intelligible order the tangle of opinion and of unconscious habit which is present in the minds of English speaking persons in the practical command of their native idiom . The field under observation has been the use of the native ...
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... intelligible program back of our activities in speech , or are we following blind impulses ? These are but a few of the many far - reaching questions that may be asked . And of course our interest in English is not limited merely to the ...
... intelligible program back of our activities in speech , or are we following blind impulses ? These are but a few of the many far - reaching questions that may be asked . And of course our interest in English is not limited merely to the ...
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... intelligible appearances than when they are viewed only close at hand . A knowledge of the historical forms of the lan- guage will therefore often be found to have a value in comprehend- ing the significance of the practical ...
... intelligible appearances than when they are viewed only close at hand . A knowledge of the historical forms of the lan- guage will therefore often be found to have a value in comprehend- ing the significance of the practical ...
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... intelligible . They have laws of their own , and though they may be exceptional in relation to some other and more general grammatical law , obvi- ously they can be understood and judged only in the light of their own grammatical ...
... intelligible . They have laws of their own , and though they may be exceptional in relation to some other and more general grammatical law , obvi- ously they can be understood and judged only in the light of their own grammatical ...
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... intelligible but also interesting and attractive to his fellow - beings . The determining mark of General Colloquial English as here described being its acceptability as the speech of cultivated conversation , so the distinctive thing ...
... intelligible but also interesting and attractive to his fellow - beings . The determining mark of General Colloquial English as here described being its acceptability as the speech of cultivated conversation , so the distinctive thing ...
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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