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Pagina 94
... plural but , at the same time , are used with the ordinary plural ending . The economising instinct in our language brings it about that we use the different plurals with different shades of meaning . Thus , brothers is the ordinary ...
... plural but , at the same time , are used with the ordinary plural ending . The economising instinct in our language brings it about that we use the different plurals with different shades of meaning . Thus , brothers is the ordinary ...
Pagina 202
... plurals are : 66 Irides , the plural of iris , meaning an appearance like the rainbow " ; and , like the plural , we have a describing word , iridescent , meaning " gaily coloured " . Miasmata , the plural of miasma , meaning ...
... plurals are : 66 Irides , the plural of iris , meaning an appearance like the rainbow " ; and , like the plural , we have a describing word , iridescent , meaning " gaily coloured " . Miasmata , the plural of miasma , meaning ...
Pagina 203
... plural sign appears on the last element only : we have girl clerks , boy messengers , bookcases , coach - houses , apple - trees . Yet we find instances where both elements take the sign . This appears to be invariably so when man or ...
... plural sign appears on the last element only : we have girl clerks , boy messengers , bookcases , coach - houses , apple - trees . Yet we find instances where both elements take the sign . This appears to be invariably so when man or ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing