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... English allows it to be loosened or stiffened as one needs , until it shades into informal English at one end and formal at the other . The most relaxed level , informal English , is seldom met in nonfictional prose ; it is the language ...
... English allows it to be loosened or stiffened as one needs , until it shades into informal English at one end and formal at the other . The most relaxed level , informal English , is seldom met in nonfictional prose ; it is the language ...
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... English Usage ( This appendix describes the most common trouble spots in student writing . Although it is compatible with Porter G. Perrin's Writer's Guide and Index to English , this appendix is not a substitute for that or any other ...
... English Usage ( This appendix describes the most common trouble spots in student writing . Although it is compatible with Porter G. Perrin's Writer's Guide and Index to English , this appendix is not a substitute for that or any other ...
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... English faculty of North Cen- tral College since 1946 and was made chairman of the English Depart- ment in 1952 and of the Humanities Department in 1961. He is the author of A Guide to the Novel . Oxford University Press , New York ...
... English faculty of North Cen- tral College since 1946 and was made chairman of the English Depart- ment in 1952 and of the Humanities Department in 1961. He is the author of A Guide to the Novel . Oxford University Press , New York ...
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