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But if we compare a sentence in Anglo - Saxon with a version in Modern English ,
we see at once that an entirely new syntax and accidence have superseded the
native construction . A consideration of these facts eventually convinces us that ...
But if we compare a sentence in Anglo - Saxon with a version in Modern English ,
we see at once that an entirely new syntax and accidence have superseded the
native construction . A consideration of these facts eventually convinces us that ...
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English to go along with ' ; ' to be raised up out of ' with their Greek , Latin , French
, and German equivalents . This characteristic is not necessarily a mark of
inferiority , since there are five distinct mental processes implied in the English ' I
shall ...
English to go along with ' ; ' to be raised up out of ' with their Greek , Latin , French
, and German equivalents . This characteristic is not necessarily a mark of
inferiority , since there are five distinct mental processes implied in the English ' I
shall ...
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But since the advent of the talking film , a new influence will soon be felt in
English . The American accent is not , however , agreeable to educated
Englishmen , and this in one way is the most effective safeguard against its
gradual adoption .
But since the advent of the talking film , a new influence will soon be felt in
English . The American accent is not , however , agreeable to educated
Englishmen , and this in one way is the most effective safeguard against its
gradual adoption .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, 255. köide |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1930 |
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