The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... plural subject , or a wrong form of a past tense , done for did , seen for saw , or says you was , or them men , or does any one of the many regrettable things which the speaker on the popular level may un- concernedly do , these forms ...
... plural subject , or a wrong form of a past tense , done for did , seen for saw , or says you was , or them men , or does any one of the many regrettable things which the speaker on the popular level may un- concernedly do , these forms ...
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... plural . In the earlier periods of the Germanic languages , as in certain other languages , a dual was also formally recognized . Even the dual , however , does not exhaust the logical possibilities , and besides a singular for one , a ...
... plural . In the earlier periods of the Germanic languages , as in certain other languages , a dual was also formally recognized . Even the dual , however , does not exhaust the logical possibilities , and besides a singular for one , a ...
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... plural , since a word in the singular number bears no mark to indicate that it refers to one object and only the plural may carry with it a distinguishing mark of the plural . The plural , therefore , with its clearly defined logical ...
... plural , since a word in the singular number bears no mark to indicate that it refers to one object and only the plural may carry with it a distinguishing mark of the plural . The plural , therefore , with its clearly defined logical ...
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... plural " meant would ex- press the thought in the same way as anybody else . Each act of language at the moment of its performance is an individual act , designed to secure intelligibility , not to illustrate a grammatical law . But the ...
... plural " meant would ex- press the thought in the same way as anybody else . Each act of language at the moment of its performance is an individual act , designed to secure intelligibility , not to illustrate a grammatical law . But the ...
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... plural subjects take plural verbs , or 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 ...
... plural subjects take plural verbs , or 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 ...
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