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... adverb ) , English has all the wild animals that live there , where all , the article , the adjective , and the relative pronoun are alike incapable of receiving any mark of the plural number ; the sense is expressed with the greatest ...
... adverb ) , English has all the wild animals that live there , where all , the article , the adjective , and the relative pronoun are alike incapable of receiving any mark of the plural number ; the sense is expressed with the greatest ...
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... adverbs extrêmement or infiniment , an Englishman says only very or rather or pretty . ' Quelle horreur ! ' is " That's rather a nuisance ' . ' Je suis ravi de vous voir ' is ' Glad to see you ' , etc. An Englishman does not like to ...
... adverbs extrêmement or infiniment , an Englishman says only very or rather or pretty . ' Quelle horreur ! ' is " That's rather a nuisance ' . ' Je suis ravi de vous voir ' is ' Glad to see you ' , etc. An Englishman does not like to ...
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... adverbs : ' now he comes ' ; ' there he goes ' , while German and Danish have , and English had till a few centuries ago , the inverted order : ' jetzt kommt er ' , ' da geht sie ' ; ' nu kommer han ' , ' dær går hun ' ; ' now comes he ...
... adverbs : ' now he comes ' ; ' there he goes ' , while German and Danish have , and English had till a few centuries ago , the inverted order : ' jetzt kommt er ' , ' da geht sie ' ; ' nu kommer han ' , ' dær går hun ' ; ' now comes he ...
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... adverbs or prepositional complexes may be used attributively as in ' his then residence , ' ' an almost reconciliation ' ( Thackeray ) , ' men invite their out - College friends ' ( Steadman ) , ' smoking his before - breakfast pipe ...
... adverbs or prepositional complexes may be used attributively as in ' his then residence , ' ' an almost reconciliation ' ( Thackeray ) , ' men invite their out - College friends ' ( Steadman ) , ' smoking his before - breakfast pipe ...
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... adverbs like full , wise , well , better , best , mine and thine , over and under , etc. etc. The conse- quence was that an Englishman would have no great difficulty in understanding a viking , nay we have posi- tive evidence that Norse ...
... adverbs like full , wise , well , better , best , mine and thine , over and under , etc. etc. The conse- quence was that an Englishman would have no great difficulty in understanding a viking , nay we have posi- tive evidence that Norse ...
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