The English Language: Its Grammar, History and Literature : with Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and PunctuationD.C. Heath & Company, 1887 - 466 lappuses |
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Adjectival adjective adverb amphibrachs Analyse Anglo-Saxon Ben Jonson born cæsura called century Chaucer comes compound conjunctions connected dative dialect ending England English language English words Enlargement EXERCISE feminine French words gender German gerund give grammar greatest Greek guttural Hence History iambic iambic pentameter Imperative Mood Indefinite Tense Indirect Object infinitive inflexions Intransitive John Julius Cæsar kind King large number Latin Latin words lines literature living London Lord meaning Milton Mood nominative Norman Norman-French Ormulum Parse the words participle passage Past Perfect person phrases plural poem poet poetry Pope possessive Predicate prefixes preposition present Principal Sentence pronoun prose prose-writer rhymed Roman root RULE Saxon Shakespeare Singular sound speak speech spoken style Subjunctive Mood subordinate sentences suffix syllable things thou thought transitive verb translation trochees verb verse words in italics Wordsworth write written wrote
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