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AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR
FOR THE USEOF
HIGH SCHOOL, ACADEMY, AND COLLEGE CLASSES
BY
W.M. BASKERVILL
PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISHLANGUAGEAND
LITERATURE IN VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY ...
Definitions of grammar.
English grammar is a description of the usages of the Englishlanguage by good
speakers and writers of the present day.—WHITNEY
A description of account of the nature, ...
Husband and wife are not connected in origin. Husband is a Scandinavian word
(Anglo-Saxon hūsbonda from Icelandic hús-bóndi, probably meaning house
dweller); wife was used in Old and Middle English...
... year, and it's really taken off.
My favourite poem has been ___________ to music and sounds beautiful as a song.
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Senior 9 – Term 3
Name:__________ UseofEnglish ... intuition D intelligence
Climate and Weather
Climate and weather, which are mainly created by the air around us, profoundly affect the lives and distribution
of animals and plants. Climate can be ...
Millions of people like (21)…………… and property owners depend
on the tourist industry for their livelihood. A decrease in the
popularity of tourism would be nothing short of (22)……………… .
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... comparison of D
U
, D
T
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log
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f with ∆ log
10
f
quency (log
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f). D
U
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U
w
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U
w
is defined as the ratio
of the actual number of users of word w (U
w
) over
the expected number of users of w (
˜
U
w
), ... creative uses ofEnglish are highly val-
ued (Pennycook, 2007), indicative of group mem-
bership, and relatively frequent. We therefore study
which factors contribute to the uptake of (hip hop-
related) ... large portion of the MZEE cor-
pus, the training data consisted of the disjoint sub-
sets of the Englishand German CELEX wordlists
(Baayen et al., 1995), as well as the words used
in Covo (to...
... purposes; and adapt speech
to context and task.
Language: Conventions, Effective Use, and Vocabulary
The Language standards include the essential “rules” of standard written
and spoken English, ...
Conventions of Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when
writing or speaking.
a. Use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and ... Standard English
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of
standard English grammar and usage when writing or
speaking.
a. Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
b. Use common, proper, and...