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... older stages of English , for the sake of the light they throw upon its later and more modern periods ; and in very many of our public schools , the upper forms possess a very creditable acquaintance with some of our old English ...
... older stages of English , for the sake of the light they throw upon its later and more modern periods ; and in very many of our public schools , the upper forms possess a very creditable acquaintance with some of our old English ...
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... older inflections of nouns , adjectives , and verbs had disappeared , while in the south of England the old forms were kept up to a much later period , and many of them have not yet died out . There are numerous traces of Scandinavian ...
... older inflections of nouns , adjectives , and verbs had disappeared , while in the south of England the old forms were kept up to a much later period , and many of them have not yet died out . There are numerous traces of Scandinavian ...
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... older inflections , and the definite article was in- flected . Many pronominal forms were employed in the South that never existed in the North , as ha ( a ) = he ; = = her . them ; is ( e ) Where the older language had infinitives ...
... older inflections , and the definite article was in- flected . Many pronominal forms were employed in the South that never existed in the North , as ha ( a ) = he ; = = her . them ; is ( e ) Where the older language had infinitives ...
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... older inflections , so as to become , in respect of inflectional forms and syntactical structure , as simple as our own . In this dialect Wicliffe , Gower , and Chaucer wrote , as well as the older and well - known authors , Orm and ...
... older inflections , so as to become , in respect of inflectional forms and syntactical structure , as simple as our own . In this dialect Wicliffe , Gower , and Chaucer wrote , as well as the older and well - known authors , Orm and ...
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... older language . This change consisted in a general weakening of the terminations of words . i . The older vowel endings , a , o , u , were reduced to e . I - en is an earlier form of this suffix . E This change affected the oblique ...
... older language . This change consisted in a general weakening of the terminations of words . i . The older vowel endings , a , o , u , were reduced to e . I - en is an earlier form of this suffix . E This change affected the oblique ...
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adjectives adverb Ayenbite become Cambridge century we find Chaucer cloth cognate College compounds connecting vowel consonants Crown 8vo dative declension demonstrative ELEMENTARY ending Extra fcap fcap feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek HISTORY indefinite infinitive inflections inflexion language later forms Latin masc masculine Midland modern English NEUT neuter Northern dialect nouns numerous O.E. we find O.Fr O.H.Ger occurs Old English older oldest English originally Ormulum participle passive participle Past Indicative past tense PERF period we find plural preposition PRES Professor Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester root Sansk Sanskrit Schools Second Edition SECOND PERIOD Shakespeare silf Sing singular sometimes Southern Spenser stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix syllable Teutonic THIRD PERIOD thirteenth and fourteenth thirteenth century thou TREATISE twelfth vowel weak verbs West Midland writers þæt þat
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