Essentials of English GrammarUniversity of Alabama Press, 1964 - 387 Seiten A classic of English grammar, Essentials of English Grammar provides a common ground for the traditionalist and the structural or descriptive linguist. Jespersen's work provides insight into the fundamental concepts that underlie the linguistic approach, but at the same time the foundation of the traditional approach is retained. |
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... terms have been found necessary , but they will offer no serious difficulty ; in fact , they are far less numerous than the terminological novelties intro- duced in recent books on psychology and other sciences . On the other hand , we ...
... terms have been found necessary , but they will offer no serious difficulty ; in fact , they are far less numerous than the terminological novelties intro- duced in recent books on psychology and other sciences . On the other hand , we ...
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... terms , one for notional time , and the other for gram- matical tense . This , however , is not easily accomplished except for section A , where we can use the term past for the time division , and preterit for the tense found , e.g. in ...
... terms , one for notional time , and the other for gram- matical tense . This , however , is not easily accomplished except for section A , where we can use the term past for the time division , and preterit for the tense found , e.g. in ...
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... terms positive and negative are used both in mathematics and in grammar , their meaning is not the same : in mathematics 4 ... term : smokers and non - smokers together comprise everybody ; he will come and he will not come exhaust all ...
... terms positive and negative are used both in mathematics and in grammar , their meaning is not the same : in mathematics 4 ... term : smokers and non - smokers together comprise everybody ; he will come and he will not come exhaust all ...
Inhalt
CHAPTER I | 15 |
CHAPTER II | 22 |
EVOLUTION OF THE SOUNDSYSTEM | 29 |
Urheberrecht | |
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