The English Language: A Brief History of Its Grammatical Changes and Its Vocabulary ... : a Text-book for High Schools and CollegesE. Maynard & Company, 1891 - 170 pages |
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abl+y able able+ness adjective adverbs al+ity al+ly ance Anglo Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle authors called Celtic Celts century common compound conjugations Conquest consonants cyrice dative declension dialect Direction.-Define distinction dropped ed+ly ency ending ent or ence ent+ly expression fic+at+ion French gender genitive George Eliot German give GRAMMATICAL CHANGES Greek hundred i)al i)ous ibil+ity ible ic+al ic+s indicative infinitive inflections interrogative ion or ive ive or ive+ly ive+ness J. S. Mill Julius Cæsar language Latin Latin words lish literature Low German ly or ness masculine meaning ment metonymy neuter Norman Norman Conquest Nouns Denoting objective one's ous+ly passive past participle Period personal pronoun Picts plural possessive preceding prefixes and suffixes present preter preterite roots Saxon Scandinavian second person sentences singular sound speech spoken stem strong verbs syllable synonyms Teutonic things third person tion tive tongue vocabulary vowel vowel declension
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