Punch, Volume 248Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1965 - English wit and humor |
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... English the passive voice of the future perfect is used as it is in French ? " It was such an extraordinary thing to say that I wondered if it was a joke . Or , worse still , a trap . But he was such a pleasant - featured , serious ...
... English the passive voice of the future perfect is used as it is in French ? " It was such an extraordinary thing to say that I wondered if it was a joke . Or , worse still , a trap . But he was such a pleasant - featured , serious ...
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... English in Cordoba . Now he has opened a school of English where it is needed most , in London . Besides entertaining us , the readers , he asks us to realise that we have one price- less asset a language which people all over the world ...
... English in Cordoba . Now he has opened a school of English where it is needed most , in London . Besides entertaining us , the readers , he asks us to realise that we have one price- less asset a language which people all over the world ...
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... English , for better or worse , there he was - English for ever . No doubt this is a tough assignment , but I can't deny that I'm English , being one quarter French Huguenot ( migrated in the seventeenth century ) , one quarter Scottish ...
... English , for better or worse , there he was - English for ever . No doubt this is a tough assignment , but I can't deny that I'm English , being one quarter French Huguenot ( migrated in the seventeenth century ) , one quarter Scottish ...
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