The Language of Literature: English Grammar in ActionMacmillan, 1985 - 158 pagine Studie over de ontwikkeling van de Engelse grammatica sedert de 14e eeuw |
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Pagina 1
... once , and -ed and -en , and then the elaborate -ing ) to modify its function to make a noun possess , to make an adjective more so or most so , to make a verb past instead of present , to turn an adjective into an adverb by adding -ly ...
... once , and -ed and -en , and then the elaborate -ing ) to modify its function to make a noun possess , to make an adjective more so or most so , to make a verb past instead of present , to turn an adjective into an adverb by adding -ly ...
Pagina 31
... once ' , chere ' countenance ' and sentence ' vein ' ; spake is Biblical . Yet the funniest- looking form is now a ' modernizing ' one - Stryved ; this is a strange case , because being a French borrowing it should conform to the ...
... once ' , chere ' countenance ' and sentence ' vein ' ; spake is Biblical . Yet the funniest- looking form is now a ' modernizing ' one - Stryved ; this is a strange case , because being a French borrowing it should conform to the ...
Pagina 108
... once ' , and not ' eventually ' as we now facetiously use it . Quaint notions and quaint words , with rich trochaic rhymes in every line , form the whimsical yet wry ' Green Slates ' : It happened once , before the duller Loomings of ...
... once ' , and not ' eventually ' as we now facetiously use it . Quaint notions and quaint words , with rich trochaic rhymes in every line , form the whimsical yet wry ' Green Slates ' : It happened once , before the duller Loomings of ...
Sommario
Gothic Revival English | 10 |
Novels Social and Antisocial | 118 |
Critical and Devotional Prose | 132 |
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adjective adverb alliteration appear become beginning better called century child comes common course dative death effect expression eyes feminine final four French genitive give grammar hand happen heard heart Holy idiom indicative infinitive inflexions keep kind King land language Latin less linguistic live look Lord loss lost marks matter means Middle English Milton mind never night noun Old English once passage past participle past tense perhaps person phrase plural poem poet poetry possessive preposition present pronoun prose seemed seen sentence shows singular sound speak speech spelling strong style subjunctive suggests syllables syntax tee túm tee things thou thought túm tee túm turn verb verse vowel weak words write wrong