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... English Prose , Oxford : Blackwell and Company , 1939 . Croll , Morris , " The Cadence of English Oratorical Prose , " Studies in Philology , 1919 , pp . 1–55 . Dykema , Karl W. , " Where Our Grammar Came From , " College English ...
... English Prose , Oxford : Blackwell and Company , 1939 . Croll , Morris , " The Cadence of English Oratorical Prose , " Studies in Philology , 1919 , pp . 1–55 . Dykema , Karl W. , " Where Our Grammar Came From , " College English ...
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... English , 1933 . Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles , 1936–1944 . Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage , compiled by Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans , 1958 . Dictionary of Modern English Usage , 2nd ed ...
... English , 1933 . Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles , 1936–1944 . Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage , compiled by Bergen Evans and Cornelia Evans , 1958 . Dictionary of Modern English Usage , 2nd ed ...
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... English Grammar , Logical and Historical . 54 See , for example , Charles Carpenter Fries , The Structure of English : An Introduction to the Construction of English Sentences ( New York : Harcourt , Brace and Company , Inc. , 1952 ) ...
... English Grammar , Logical and Historical . 54 See , for example , Charles Carpenter Fries , The Structure of English : An Introduction to the Construction of English Sentences ( New York : Harcourt , Brace and Company , Inc. , 1952 ) ...
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