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Pagina 60
... singular , not the plural ) . The plural comes only with col- lectives denoting living beings : " The vast majority had never known a time when Queen Victoria had not been reigning over them . " ( The collective noun majority is ...
... singular , not the plural ) . The plural comes only with col- lectives denoting living beings : " The vast majority had never known a time when Queen Victoria had not been reigning over them . " ( The collective noun majority is ...
Pagina 104
... singular noun : the French assez is " enough " , and assets meant enough to discharge the burden of debts " . Yet you would be foolish to use assets as a noun of Singular Number ( as Bacon does ) and use it for the corresponding pronoun ...
... singular noun : the French assez is " enough " , and assets meant enough to discharge the burden of debts " . Yet you would be foolish to use assets as a noun of Singular Number ( as Bacon does ) and use it for the corresponding pronoun ...
Pagina 202
... ( singular also species ) ; theses ( singular , thesis ) ; bases ( singular , basis ) ; opera ( singular , opus ) ; are Latin plurals . Ellipses ( ellipsis ) ; analyses ( analysis ) ; paren- theses ( parenthesis ) ; phenomena ( phenomenon ) ...
... ( singular also species ) ; theses ( singular , thesis ) ; bases ( singular , basis ) ; opera ( singular , opus ) ; are Latin plurals . Ellipses ( ellipsis ) ; analyses ( analysis ) ; paren- theses ( parenthesis ) ; phenomena ( phenomenon ) ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus CÆSURA 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 inflexions instance Julius Cæsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective 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