A Grammar of Late Modern English: For the Use of Continental, Especially Dutch, Students, Part 1P. Noordhoff, 1904 |
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... HEART CLIVE Cop . -CONF . Esc . , ENGL . H. E. GR . HIST . = ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN , by SIR WALTER BESANT . = ATHENEUM . = LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET , by MISS BRADDON . = A BANKRUPT HEART , by FLOR . MARRYAT . = LORD CLIVE , by ...
... HEART CLIVE Cop . -CONF . Esc . , ENGL . H. E. GR . HIST . = ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN , by SIR WALTER BESANT . = ATHENEUM . = LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET , by MISS BRADDON . = A BANKRUPT HEART , by FLOR . MARRYAT . = LORD CLIVE , by ...
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... heart turned faint within him . D. HEYL . , 128 . The weather has turned much colder . DAILY CHRON . ii . I hope you have no intent to turn husband , have you ? MUCH ADO I , 1 . They turned Christian . PLAIN TALES , A , 11 . Yon won't ...
... heart turned faint within him . D. HEYL . , 128 . The weather has turned much colder . DAILY CHRON . ii . I hope you have no intent to turn husband , have you ? MUCH ADO I , 1 . They turned Christian . PLAIN TALES , A , 11 . Yon won't ...
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... heart aches to think they could possibly be either fools or rascals . BL . HOUSE , CH . V , 37 . In denying uncertainty can is , however , regularly used to the exclusion of may . i . Dr. Wace can find no difficulty in pointing out the ...
... heart aches to think they could possibly be either fools or rascals . BL . HOUSE , CH . V , 37 . In denying uncertainty can is , however , regularly used to the exclusion of may . i . Dr. Wace can find no difficulty in pointing out the ...
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... heart . ib . , 28 . In like manner zullen is now used now suppressed in de Staten - overzetting . d ) rhetorical questions that are tantamount to negative declarative sentences . Shall in this kind of sentences implies but a slight ...
... heart . ib . , 28 . In like manner zullen is now used now suppressed in de Staten - overzetting . d ) rhetorical questions that are tantamount to negative declarative sentences . Shall in this kind of sentences implies but a slight ...
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... heart beat no more ; it was to have no more pangs , no more doubts , no more griefs and trials . PEND . , II , Cн . XX , 218 . The day broke , the day which was to decide the fate of India . CLIVE , 5186 . Note the idiom in : The life ...
... heart beat no more ; it was to have no more pangs , no more doubts , no more griefs and trials . PEND . , II , Cн . XX , 218 . The day broke , the day which was to decide the fate of India . CLIVE , 5186 . Note the idiom in : The life ...
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adjective adnom adverbial adjunct adverbial clauses BARRY PAIN BLEAK HOUSE BRONTË CHRISTM CHUZ CLIVE Compare conjunctive adverbs construction copula denoting DOLF HEYL Dutch E. W. HORNUNG Early Modern English ENGL equivalent expressed FAIR following quotations frequently gerund gerund-construction gerund(-clause GOOD-NAT Grammar of Late GRAPH GÜNTH HAML head-sentence HENRY ESM HIST HUXL infinitive infinitive-clause infinitive-construction instances JOHN HAL KATH lady Late Modern English Lord MARN meaning MEES modified MURRAY N. E. GR never NIGHT AND MORN non-prepositional object Note noun OLLA PODRIDA participle PEND PICKW POUTSMA preceded predicative adnominal adjunct preposition prepositional object preterite PRIDE AND PREJ pronoun regularly SCHOOL FOR SCAND seems sentence sometimes stand STOF subordinate statement tell TITM TOM BROWN undeveloped clauses verbs VIII WEBST WESTW word word-group XVII XVIII XXXII
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