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... words is offered by Henry Bradley in his paper on ' Language ' : So far as colloquial words are concerned , the correct meaning is that which is prescribed by usage ; there is no appeal to any higher court . If the customary meaning ...
... words is offered by Henry Bradley in his paper on ' Language ' : So far as colloquial words are concerned , the correct meaning is that which is prescribed by usage ; there is no appeal to any higher court . If the customary meaning ...
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... words by an order that often modifies the commonplace . Use is also freely made of intensive words called up - toners or , in depreciation , down - toners ; but these , when reflected in writing , are employed with greater dis ...
... words by an order that often modifies the commonplace . Use is also freely made of intensive words called up - toners or , in depreciation , down - toners ; but these , when reflected in writing , are employed with greater dis ...
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... word - links , to join co - ordinate words , phrases or clauses , ( b ) Subordinating word- links , to dovetail a subordinate clause to a main clause . With the exception of adversative but , and an archaic and biblical employment of co ...
... word - links , to join co - ordinate words , phrases or clauses , ( b ) Subordinating word- links , to dovetail a subordinate clause to a main clause . With the exception of adversative but , and an archaic and biblical employment of co ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
Introduction | 13 |
Social Strata and Levels of Communication | 21 |
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adjective adverbial clauses adverbs analytical language archaic Ascham auxiliary Ben Jonson Caxton Chapter Chaucer co-ordinating colloquial common compound conjunctions construction Dictionary e.g. EMIH eighteenth century Elizabethan EMIH EMIH F EMOH emphatic English Grammar English Language epithets express F₁ Faerie Queene function genitive gerund grammarians H. C. Wyld hath Henry Henry IV Ibid F idiomatic illustrate infinitive inflexion intransitive verbs inversion J.Caes Jespersen King James Bible Latin linguistic literary English literature logical London main clause meaning Middle English modern English negative noun clause Old English origin orthography Oxford participle passive periphrastic person phrases plays poetic poetry poets prepositions pronoun pronunciation prose regarded relative Revels rhetoric rhythm selfe sentence seventeenth century Shakespeare Shakespeare and Jonson Sir Thomas sixteenth century sonne Sonnet speake speech spelling Spenser structure style stylistic subjunctive subordinate clauses syllables syntactical tense thee thou tongue translation Tudor English usage verse word order writing