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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... syntax affected the syntax in such ways as the use of ( what are now ) de and à for our declined genitive and dative of nouns . Some of the wrenchings of the language were disastrous . But the imposition or peaceful acquisition of so ...
... syntax affected the syntax in such ways as the use of ( what are now ) de and à for our declined genitive and dative of nouns . Some of the wrenchings of the language were disastrous . But the imposition or peaceful acquisition of so ...
Pagina 39
... syntax is tortuous ; the diction quaint in places ; and the whole stanza helps to substantiate Ben Jonson's statement that through aping the ancients Spenser ' writ no language ' . The poetas- ters who followed Chaucer said that he had ...
... syntax is tortuous ; the diction quaint in places ; and the whole stanza helps to substantiate Ben Jonson's statement that through aping the ancients Spenser ' writ no language ' . The poetas- ters who followed Chaucer said that he had ...
Pagina 61
... syntax ; it hardly got a foothold in Latin syntax , though Catullus used it once and we were carefully taught the notorious instance in Virgil ( Aeneid , II 377 ) , sensit medios delapsus in hostes , ' he felt having fallen amid enemies ...
... syntax ; it hardly got a foothold in Latin syntax , though Catullus used it once and we were carefully taught the notorious instance in Virgil ( Aeneid , II 377 ) , sensit medios delapsus in hostes , ' he felt having fallen amid enemies ...
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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