The Movement of English ProseLongmans, 1966 - 182 páginas |
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... passage on page 107 . What is the percentage of foreign words in the passage : ( a ) on a vocabulary basis ( counting each word only once , irrespective of the number of times it occurs ) ? ( b ) on an occurrence basis ( counting every ...
... passage on page 107 . What is the percentage of foreign words in the passage : ( a ) on a vocabulary basis ( counting each word only once , irrespective of the number of times it occurs ) ? ( b ) on an occurrence basis ( counting every ...
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... passage correspond to that of Modern English ? In what ways does it differ ? Now cometh idle words , that is ... passages were written towards the end of the fif- teenth century . Account for the differences in vocabulary and sentence ...
... passage correspond to that of Modern English ? In what ways does it differ ? Now cometh idle words , that is ... passages were written towards the end of the fif- teenth century . Account for the differences in vocabulary and sentence ...
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... passage appear to be closer to modern prose ? 9. Compare the passage from Donne on page 118 with the following passage on a similar theme by Jeremy Taylor ( published shortly after the Donne passage ) : It is a thing that everyone ...
... passage appear to be closer to modern prose ? 9. Compare the passage from Donne on page 118 with the following passage on a similar theme by Jeremy Taylor ( published shortly after the Donne passage ) : It is a thing that everyone ...
Términos y frases comunes
accepted Addison Aelfric Alfred's Alfredian prose Anglo-Saxon audience baroque Bible Book C. L. WRENN Cambridge Chapter chronicle Ciceronian classical clauses colloquial continuity conversation critical Donne earlier early educated EETS England English language English prose essay Euphuism fifteenth French halga homilies humanist Humanist Latinity imagery influence Jane Austen later Latin latinised learning linguistic literary London loose and free Lord main statements mediaeval medium metaphor Middle English Milton modern English movement of speech narrative native never novel Old English Old English prose Oxford parataxis passage pattern Pecock period periodic sentence phrases poetry poets preaching printed prose style Quintilian R. W. Chambers reader reading recognisable renaissance rhetoric rhythm romantic prose semantic Senecan sentence-structure sermon seventeenth century Sir Thomas sixteenth century speech-based prose stress structure syntactical syntax Tacitus texts thou tion tongue translation Tristram Shandy Tyndale verb verse vocabulary word-groups word-order words writing written prose