The Knowledge of EnglishH. Holt, 1927 - 572 Seiten |
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... speaking persons in the practical command of their native idiom . The field under observation has been the use of the native idiom not merely in writing but also in speech , and not merely at painful moments of indecision , but also ...
... speaking persons in the practical command of their native idiom . The field under observation has been the use of the native idiom not merely in writing but also in speech , and not merely at painful moments of indecision , but also ...
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... speaking . It is not concerned with the technical rules of punctuation , paragraphing , sentence structure , and the other minutiae of rhetorical instruction . That these technical details are important goes without saying . At the very ...
... speaking . It is not concerned with the technical rules of punctuation , paragraphing , sentence structure , and the other minutiae of rhetorical instruction . That these technical details are important goes without saying . At the very ...
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... youth mentioned at the opening of this chapter ? Why not simply forge ahead , speaking and writing from the heart out , doing the work of each moment as the moment calls for it , and never troubling about past errors NATURE AND NURTURE 5.
... youth mentioned at the opening of this chapter ? Why not simply forge ahead , speaking and writing from the heart out , doing the work of each moment as the moment calls for it , and never troubling about past errors NATURE AND NURTURE 5.
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... speak well and to write well without a critical knowledge of the language , why should anyone bother about the critical side of the language at all ? The answer to this question is , that things which are possible are not always ...
... speak well and to write well without a critical knowledge of the language , why should anyone bother about the critical side of the language at all ? The answer to this question is , that things which are possible are not always ...
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... speak no language but English . At the other extreme from this minimum of accomplishment may stand the expert speaker , writer , or scholar , whose knowledge of English covers an infinity of detail beyond the experience of those who are ...
... speak no language but English . At the other extreme from this minimum of accomplishment may stand the expert speaker , writer , or scholar , whose knowledge of English covers an infinity of detail beyond the experience of those who are ...
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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