Tudor to Augustan English: A Study in Syntax and Style from Caxton to Johnson |
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... thought to thought are conversational , and are indicated in the text mainly by punctuation . Traces of Tudor speech occur in the last sentence after the connective for , where the participle continuing has the force of a conditional ...
... thought to thought are conversational , and are indicated in the text mainly by punctuation . Traces of Tudor speech occur in the last sentence after the connective for , where the participle continuing has the force of a conditional ...
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... thought or emotions in others . The eighteenth - century conception of grammar as an aspect of logic and rhetoric tends to neglect the personal element in writing ; so that parsing and formal analysis are now thought ( perhaps unwisely ) ...
... thought or emotions in others . The eighteenth - century conception of grammar as an aspect of logic and rhetoric tends to neglect the personal element in writing ; so that parsing and formal analysis are now thought ( perhaps unwisely ) ...
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... thought to be expressed is continuous and complex , and where the aids to intelligibility furnished by intonation and gesture are wanting . As the art of literary composition advances , and the tasks to which it addresses itself become ...
... thought to be expressed is continuous and complex , and where the aids to intelligibility furnished by intonation and gesture are wanting . As the art of literary composition advances , and the tasks to which it addresses itself become ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
Introduction | 13 |
Social Strata and Levels of Communication | 21 |
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