The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository ProseArthur M. Eastman |
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... language . It is hardly reasonable to ex- pect that teaching a person some inaccurate grammatical analysis will either improve the effectiveness of his assertions or teach him what expressions are acceptable to use in a given social ...
... language . It is hardly reasonable to ex- pect that teaching a person some inaccurate grammatical analysis will either improve the effectiveness of his assertions or teach him what expressions are acceptable to use in a given social ...
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... language . In many of the primitive languages , 3 of course , where writing is unknown , the spoken language is the only form . This is in many ways an advantage to the linguist , because the written language may use conventions that ...
... language . In many of the primitive languages , 3 of course , where writing is unknown , the spoken language is the only form . This is in many ways an advantage to the linguist , because the written language may use conventions that ...
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... language : " he came to grief , " " I hope nothing will happen to him , " " I am inclined to think your accounts are not very accurate , " will serve as examples . Pleonasm , or the practice of saying the same thing twice over in the ...
... language : " he came to grief , " " I hope nothing will happen to him , " " I am inclined to think your accounts are not very accurate , " will serve as examples . Pleonasm , or the practice of saying the same thing twice over in the ...
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Dylan Thomas Memories of Christmas | 1 |
Allan Seager The Joys of Sport at Oxford | 11 |
A J Liebling Poet and Pedagogue | 22 |
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