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... genitive -s ; the comparison of Adjectives was expressed sometimes by more and most instead of -er and -est . Romance adjectives were inflected in the plural after the Norman - French method , as wateres principales , capitalles lettres ...
... genitive -s ; the comparison of Adjectives was expressed sometimes by more and most instead of -er and -est . Romance adjectives were inflected in the plural after the Norman - French method , as wateres principales , capitalles lettres ...
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... genitive and dative inflexions : do , have , shall , will , & c . in the formation of tenses : more and most instead of -er and -est in the comparison of adjectives . The preposition to has replaced the infinitive ending -an ( -en ) as ...
... genitive and dative inflexions : do , have , shall , will , & c . in the formation of tenses : more and most instead of -er and -est in the comparison of adjectives . The preposition to has replaced the infinitive ending -an ( -en ) as ...
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... Genitive , Dative , and Instrumental . In Modern English we have the subject - noun or Nominative case , the object - noun or Objective case , and the Possessive case . The Nominative and Objective case of nouns have the same form , and ...
... Genitive , Dative , and Instrumental . In Modern English we have the subject - noun or Nominative case , the object - noun or Objective case , and the Possessive case . The Nominative and Objective case of nouns have the same form , and ...
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... genitive suffixes for the singular and the plural . The suffixes for the singular in the first period were -es , smith - es ( smith's ) , -an , steorr - an ( star's ) -e , rod - e ( rood's ) -a , sun - a ( son's ) . For the plural they ...
... genitive suffixes for the singular and the plural . The suffixes for the singular in the first period were -es , smith - es ( smith's ) , -an , steorr - an ( star's ) -e , rod - e ( rood's ) -a , sun - a ( son's ) . For the plural they ...
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... GENITIVE IN -es . wulf , wolf ; scip , ship ; word , word . Singular . Masculine , Neuter . Nom . wulf Voc . scip word Gen. wulf - es scip - es word - es Dat . wulf - e scip - e word - e Acc . wulf scip word Inst . wulf - ê scip - ê ...
... GENITIVE IN -es . wulf , wolf ; scip , ship ; word , word . Singular . Masculine , Neuter . Nom . wulf Voc . scip word Gen. wulf - es scip - es word - es Dat . wulf - e scip - e word - e Acc . wulf scip word Inst . wulf - ê scip - ê ...
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