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The English Language: Its Grammar, History, and Literature; With Chapters on Composition, Versification, Paraphrasing, and Punctuation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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It is hoped that the book will also be useful in Ladies' Colleges and middle-class Schools, to candidates for Local Examinations, and to other classes of students.
Only the most salient features Of the language have been described, and minor details have been left for the teacher to fill in. The utmost clearness and simplicity have been the aim of the writer, and he has been obliged to sacrifice many interesting details to this aim.
The study of English Grammar is becoming every day more and more historical - and necessarily so. There are scores of inflections, usages, constructions, idioms, which cannot be truly or adequately explained without a. Reference to the past states of the language - to the time when it was a synthetic or inflected language, like German or Latin.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 028221433X
- ISBN 13 9780282214333
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages429
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