The Increasing Frequency of the Preposition about During the Modern English PeriodAlmqvist & Wiksell, 1963 - 335 pagina's |
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B tell followed by direct neuter object | 38 |
The verbs tell and know compared 45 | 45 |
tell preceded by direct neuter object | 51 |
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20th century English 20th century texts Angel Pavement Austen Boswell Brontë Burney Carlyle century texts contain Cheyney construction say construction speak construction talk construction write constructional type constructional type talk containing the constructional crime novel denoting a person direct neut direct neuter object Doyle earlier Modern English examples illustrating Examples of talk frequent Galsworthy Gawdy Ideal Husband illustrating the constructional Isherwood Jerrold Lady Lady Windermere's Fan late Modern English letters Lord Mansfield matter Maugham McGinty's Dead Modern English texts Moon and Sixpence never pers plays positive imperative predominates prep preposition is followed Present-day English Pride and Prejudice Priestley Rattigan Robertson say+direct neut seems sentences Shaw Sherlock Holmes Shute single instance spoke statistics given talk to sy texts investigated things told Vanbrugh verb say verb talk Verney Waugh Wentworth word or phrase Wycherley ох ох