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... hence called a " family " -the INDO - EUROPEAN ( or the ARYAN ) family . 4. The English - speaking people of England were conquered in the eleventh century by the Normans , a French - speaking people ; and , by the mixture of the two ...
... hence called a " family " -the INDO - EUROPEAN ( or the ARYAN ) family . 4. The English - speaking people of England were conquered in the eleventh century by the Normans , a French - speaking people ; and , by the mixture of the two ...
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... hence , if it lives so long , the English will be so far unlike what it now is that we , if we were to come to life again , should per- haps not understand it without a good deal of trouble . 8. The oldest English that we know anything ...
... hence , if it lives so long , the English will be so far unlike what it now is that we , if we were to come to life again , should per- haps not understand it without a good deal of trouble . 8. The oldest English that we know anything ...
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... Hence , the English language , as made the subject of a grammar , means the English of the present day , as used by good speakers and writers ; and English grammar is a description of the usages of the English language in this sense . A ...
... Hence , the English language , as made the subject of a grammar , means the English of the present day , as used by good speakers and writers ; and English grammar is a description of the usages of the English language in this sense . A ...
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... Hence , we cannot make a sentence without using a verb ; the predicate of the sentence ( as we have called it above ) must be a verb ; and we cannot describe a verb truly except by saying that it is a kind of word which goes with the ...
... Hence , we cannot make a sentence without using a verb ; the predicate of the sentence ( as we have called it above ) must be a verb ; and we cannot describe a verb truly except by saying that it is a kind of word which goes with the ...
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... hence that can stand , alone or with other words , as the predicate of a sentence . 30. When a predicate is composed of two or more words , we call the simple verb in it the BARE predicate , and this along with the rest the COMPLETE ...
... hence that can stand , alone or with other words , as the predicate of a sentence . 30. When a predicate is composed of two or more words , we call the simple verb in it the BARE predicate , and this along with the rest the COMPLETE ...
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Page 203 - The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising; There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
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