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... never find the plural with collectives like plenty or library or train ; you have " A plenty of candles lights up this chapel , and this scene of age and youth , and early memories and pompous death " ( never light ) . We find the ...
... never find the plural with collectives like plenty or library or train ; you have " A plenty of candles lights up this chapel , and this scene of age and youth , and early memories and pompous death " ( never light ) . We find the ...
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... never heard of before , but merely by maintaining a progress ; and resolving , as a postillion does , having once set out , never to stop till we reach the appointed end . If a man may talk without thinking , why may he not write upon ...
... never heard of before , but merely by maintaining a progress ; and resolving , as a postillion does , having once set out , never to stop till we reach the appointed end . If a man may talk without thinking , why may he not write upon ...
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... never consent to it , but said , it was better to die once , than always to be afraid of death . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once ; Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It ...
... never consent to it , but said , it was better to die once , than always to be afraid of death . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once ; Of all the wonders that I yet have heard , It ...
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THE PURPOSE OF IT | 1 |
NEED FOR REVISION | 13 |
THE PURPOSE OF LANGUAGE | 25 |
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accent Accounts adjective admirable adverb Arica B.Sc beauty become better Book-keeping Cacafuego Cæsar comma commas mark Commercial connexion consider contrast correct delight Dictionary Doctor Johnson effective English English language examination expression fact French give gold grammar hear hearers honour idea idiom instance intended interpret J. H. BURTON JAMES STEPHENSON Julius Cæsar King labour lady language Latin lines LL.B look Lord M.Com matter meaning metaphor mind modern natural Nervii never noun participle passage passive perhaps periodic sentence phrase Pitman's Pitman's Shorthand plural preposition present pronoun prose purpose question quotation reader reason Revised rule sails sense Shakespeare singular slang sound speak speaker speech spelling statement stop subjunctive mood suggest sweet syllables talk tell thee thing thou thought tion verb vocabulary voice vowel wish words writing