General principles of grammar1847 - 80 pages |
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... arrangement of our sentences . The period during which language usually becomes deteriorated is during the first steps of refinement ; when men begin to despise the habits of the people as vulgar , and place their language in the same ...
... arrangement of our sentences . The period during which language usually becomes deteriorated is during the first steps of refinement ; when men begin to despise the habits of the people as vulgar , and place their language in the same ...
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... arrangement of language , which nations have agreed on as the best for conveying the meaning of the speaker or the writer . Each na- tion varies this slightly , but the great distinctions , founded on the nature of things , will be ...
... arrangement of language , which nations have agreed on as the best for conveying the meaning of the speaker or the writer . Each na- tion varies this slightly , but the great distinctions , founded on the nature of things , will be ...
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... arrangement as a key to the rest , Greek has far the best claim to be first taught , both from its rank as the ancestor of both divi- sions of the European languages , and from the greater resemblance which subsists between it and the ...
... arrangement as a key to the rest , Greek has far the best claim to be first taught , both from its rank as the ancestor of both divi- sions of the European languages , and from the greater resemblance which subsists between it and the ...
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... always be surrounded with difficulties to a fo- reigner , it is nevertheless probable , that were the above arrangement of the tenses adopted in Shakespeare . grammars , instead of the customary one of , I 66 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
... always be surrounded with difficulties to a fo- reigner , it is nevertheless probable , that were the above arrangement of the tenses adopted in Shakespeare . grammars , instead of the customary one of , I 66 ENGLISH GRAMMAR .
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... arrangement of the nomi- native before the verb ; for as the accusative of the substantive has no especial termination , it would be impossible to make a sentence per- spicuous if any other arrangement were adopted . The arrangement ...
... arrangement of the nomi- native before the verb ; for as the accusative of the substantive has no especial termination , it would be impossible to make a sentence per- spicuous if any other arrangement were adopted . The arrangement ...
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Common terms and phrases
accusative action Addison adjective adverb agent alike Anglo-Saxon arrangement becomes called CAPTAIN compound tenses Concord conjunction dative declension defective auxiliaries derived distinction dual number English language farther feminine forcible gefeɲa gender genitive German govern grammarian Greek GREEK PHILOSOPHY guage gular hath horse idioms IMPERATIVE Mode implies INDICATIVE MODE INFINITIVE MODE inflection INTERJECTION interrogatively LADY NEUBRUNN Latin Lord Lord Byron love We Thou masculine modern languages nations neuter nominative noun Participle past Participle present PASSIVE VOICE peculiar person or thing phrase plural possessive pronoun preposition pression primitive pronoun PRINCIPLES OF GRAMMAR regular verb relative require rule Saxon sense sentence Shakespeare signifies simple future Sing singular sion Smith Southey speak speaker speech stand SUBJUNCTIVE MODE tence termed termination Teutonic thee THEKLA Thou hadst Ye thought tion tive translation universal grammar usual place verb transitive wholly indeclinable words writing
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