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... according as the final word is one or other of these parts of speech . Obs . 1. - The fact that almost all modern English nouns are merely stems , obliges us to turn to languages like Latin , Greek , and Sanskrit , for Aryan compounds ...
... according as the final word is one or other of these parts of speech . Obs . 1. - The fact that almost all modern English nouns are merely stems , obliges us to turn to languages like Latin , Greek , and Sanskrit , for Aryan compounds ...
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... according as the clauses which they connect are co - ordinate or sub - ordinate , i.e. adverbial [ §§ 119 , 108 ] . Without conjunctions language would consist of little more than a number of short propositions , whose relation to one ...
... according as the clauses which they connect are co - ordinate or sub - ordinate , i.e. adverbial [ §§ 119 , 108 ] . Without conjunctions language would consist of little more than a number of short propositions , whose relation to one ...
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... according to their meaning in a sentence is to some extent reflected in the various conjugational Voices , but by no means completely so . This classification by meaning rests primarily on the consideration . Whether the subject of the ...
... according to their meaning in a sentence is to some extent reflected in the various conjugational Voices , but by no means completely so . This classification by meaning rests primarily on the consideration . Whether the subject of the ...
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... according as the action or state of the action is represented as entire from beginning to end , as completed , as progressing , or as impending . Properly speaking , the tenses of the participles do not tell us of the time of an action ...
... according as the action or state of the action is represented as entire from beginning to end , as completed , as progressing , or as impending . Properly speaking , the tenses of the participles do not tell us of the time of an action ...
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... according to the functional divisions of its body by an anatomist , is unlike the chopping of it into pieces by the butcher or the cook . And it is by means of such an Analysis that we arrive at those Functional elements of a spoken ...
... according to the functional divisions of its body by an anatomist , is unlike the chopping of it into pieces by the butcher or the cook . And it is by means of such an Analysis that we arrive at those Functional elements of a spoken ...
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