 | Alexander Bain - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...less ambiguous. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed. The accuracy aud clearness of the sentence depend very much upon the proper and determinate nse of the relative, so that it may readily present its antecedent to the mind, without any obscurity... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...would have been less ambiguous. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence depend...it may readily present its antecedent to the mind, without any obscurity or ambiguity. Hoping that I will soon hear from you, believe me yours truly.... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence depend vory much upon the proper and determinate use of the relative,...it may readily present its antecedent to the mind, without any obscurity or ambiguity. Hoping that I will soon hear from you, believe me yours truly.... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...would have been less ambiguous. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed. The accuracy and clearness of the sentence depend...use of the relative, so that it may readily present itfi antecedent to the mind, without any obscurity or ambiguity. Hoping that I will soon hear from... | |
 | Dieter Stein (linguiste).), Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...levels the charge of obscurity and ambiguity against the use of that or 0 in place of the w/i-pronouns: "The accuracy and clearness of the Sentence depend...hearer or reader without any obscurity or ambiguity". And although he does concede to contemporary practice in mentioning the zero-relative, it does not... | |
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Which of them, is he or she ?" 9. As the pronoun relative has no distinction of number, we sometimes find an ambiguity in the use of it : as when we say, " The disciples of Christ, whom we imitate ;" we may mean the imitation either of Christ, or of... 
