The English Language: A Brief History of Its Grammatical Changes and Its Vocabulary : with Exercises on Synonyms, Prefixes and Suffixes, Word-analysis and Word Building : a Text-book for High Schools and CollegesMaynard, Merrill, 1893 - 220 sider |
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... spoken of in chapters IV . - VII . The proof - sheets of this work have had the careful criti- cism of an eminent professor in one of our largest colleges . His valuable suggestions have greatly aided us . TO THE TEACHER . As this book ...
... spoken of in chapters IV . - VII . The proof - sheets of this work have had the careful criti- cism of an eminent professor in one of our largest colleges . His valuable suggestions have greatly aided us . TO THE TEACHER . As this book ...
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... spoken and understood by the human race are not the same . A great part of our education , indeed , consists in learning living languages other than our own , in translating what is written in them into our own . But languages widely ...
... spoken and understood by the human race are not the same . A great part of our education , indeed , consists in learning living languages other than our own , in translating what is written in them into our own . But languages widely ...
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... was scarcely suspected , were once the same speech , spoken by a people dwelling together long enough to build up a respectable vocabulary and a common grammar . The home of this mother - tribe 2 The English Language .
... was scarcely suspected , were once the same speech , spoken by a people dwelling together long enough to build up a respectable vocabulary and a common grammar . The home of this mother - tribe 2 The English Language .
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... Spoken on the Island . - The uncon- quered Celts , or Kelts , of the west and north spoke their own tongue , of course , the Celtic , or Keltic . That of the conquered portion was overwhelmingly the language of the conquerors , and was ...
... Spoken on the Island . - The uncon- quered Celts , or Kelts , of the west and north spoke their own tongue , of course , the Celtic , or Keltic . That of the conquered portion was overwhelmingly the language of the conquerors , and was ...
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... spoken by two peoples living together . Neither language would yield to the other , neither people would learn that of the other . How little these two tongues had blended in the vocabulary of writers , at least , may be seen when we ...
... spoken by two peoples living together . Neither language would yield to the other , neither people would learn that of the other . How little these two tongues had blended in the vocabulary of writers , at least , may be seen when we ...
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abl+y able able+ness adjective al+ist al+ize al+ly or al+ity ance Anglo Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon Chronicle cá tus called Celtic Celts circum Conquest consonants cyrice dative declension denote derivative dropped ed+ly ed+ness ency ending English ent+ly or ence fi+er ficat+ion French ful+ly genitive give grammatical Greek Helps hence i)ous i)ous+ly ibil+ity ibility ible ic+al infinitive inflections ing+ly inter ion or ive ion+al ion+ary ive or ive+ly ive+ness J. S. Mill KELLOGG'S language Latin LESSON ly or ness meaning ment metaphorical metonymy ná tus neuter Norman Norman Conquest noun object one's or+ship ous+ly ous+ness past participle personal pronoun Picts plural prefixes and suffixes preterite Pupil Pupil.-¹ rá tus root root-forms Saxon singular sound speech spoken strong verbs subjunctive suffixes syllable synonyms tense Teutonic things tion tive tongue verb vocabulary vowel