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James Hamblin Smith. Cambridge : PRINTED BY J. PALMER , JESUS LANE . PREFACE . THIS book is intended to give , first Adjectival Sentences.
James Hamblin Smith. Cambridge : PRINTED BY J. PALMER , JESUS LANE . PREFACE . THIS book is intended to give , first Adjectival Sentences.
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James Hamblin Smith. PREFACE . THIS book is intended to give , first , a simple account of the elementary facts of English Grammar , so far as they relate to the construction of sentences ; and , secondly , a short sketch of the ...
James Hamblin Smith. PREFACE . THIS book is intended to give , first , a simple account of the elementary facts of English Grammar , so far as they relate to the construction of sentences ; and , secondly , a short sketch of the ...
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... give . I fear that I have trusted too much to memory in citing passages from the poets , and that some slight errors - like that in the quotation from Dryden on page 15 , where untainted is put for unspotted - have yet to be discovered ...
... give . I fear that I have trusted too much to memory in citing passages from the poets , and that some slight errors - like that in the quotation from Dryden on page 15 , where untainted is put for unspotted - have yet to be discovered ...
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... gives to himself . 5. When we put words together , to make a statement , as Snow is white ; to ask a question , as Are you ready ? or to give an order , as Ring the bell , we form a Sentence . We will first consider sentences expressing ...
... gives to himself . 5. When we put words together , to make a statement , as Snow is white ; to ask a question , as Are you ready ? or to give an order , as Ring the bell , we form a Sentence . We will first consider sentences expressing ...
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... give distinguishing names to mark the office that a Noun performs as part of a sentence ; and so , when it is the subject , it is said to be in the Nomina- tive Case , and when it stands for the object of a Transitive Verb , it is said ...
... give distinguishing names to mark the office that a Noun performs as part of a sentence ; and so , when it is the subject , it is said to be in the Nomina- tive Case , and when it stands for the object of a Transitive Verb , it is said ...
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