The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... nouns are concerned , in later stages of the language . In the gradual development of English through Middle to Modern ... noun now at the end of the sentence , whatever case one may decide it to be , was originally the subject , that is ...
... nouns are concerned , in later stages of the language . In the gradual development of English through Middle to Modern ... noun now at the end of the sentence , whatever case one may decide it to be , was originally the subject , that is ...
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... noun bonus , the only pos- sible plural would be bonuses . And as the student looks back over the history of English , he perceives that the tendency to reduce all plurals to the type of plurals with s brought about an almost complete ...
... noun bonus , the only pos- sible plural would be bonuses . And as the student looks back over the history of English , he perceives that the tendency to reduce all plurals to the type of plurals with s brought about an almost complete ...
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... 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 will probably be delighted . He will feel 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 will probably be delighted . He will feel that ...
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... noun and plural in feeling , may be as acceptable to some speakers as this kind . The only power that could make any particular form of speech necessarily correct in itself would be something inhering in the nature of the language . But ...
... noun and plural in feeling , may be as acceptable to some speakers as this kind . The only power that could make any particular form of speech necessarily correct in itself would be something inhering in the nature of the language . But ...
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... noun , the adverb than the verb , the conjunction than the preposition . Within their several groups , and ... noun is a noun would be to make a plural of it by adding s . This has become the almost universal analogi- cal mark of the ...
... noun , the adverb than the verb , the conjunction than the preposition . Within their several groups , and ... noun is a noun would be to make a plural of it by adding s . This has become the almost universal analogi- cal mark of the ...
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