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... replaced by Romance and Latin terms . Influence of Norman - French upon the Grammar of English . 30. No language gives up its grammar and adopts a new system of borrowed inflexions for its nouns , adjectives , and verbs , & c . It will ...
... replaced by Romance and Latin terms . Influence of Norman - French upon the Grammar of English . 30. No language gives up its grammar and adopts a new system of borrowed inflexions for its nouns , adjectives , and verbs , & c . It will ...
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... replacing the older grammatical end- ings by the use of relational words , as , prepositions , auxiliaries , & c . Doubtless the Norman invasion caused this change to take place more rapidly and generally , than it would otherwise have ...
... replacing the older grammatical end- ings by the use of relational words , as , prepositions , auxiliaries , & c . Doubtless the Norman invasion caused this change to take place more rapidly and generally , than it would otherwise have ...
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... replaced English ones . In the fourteenth century we find the feminine -ess taking the place of -en , and -ster . Cp . dwelleresse in Wicliffe for dwellstere ; goddesse ( Chaucer ) for Old English gydin ; and the modern forms bond - age ...
... replaced English ones . In the fourteenth century we find the feminine -ess taking the place of -en , and -ster . Cp . dwelleresse in Wicliffe for dwellstere ; goddesse ( Chaucer ) for Old English gydin ; and the modern forms bond - age ...
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... replaced by weak ones . To the first half of this period belong a Metrical Chronicle , and Lives of Saints , attributed to Robert of Gloucester ; Langtoft's Metrical Chronicle , translated by Robert of Brunne , and the Handlyng Synne ...
... replaced by weak ones . To the first half of this period belong a Metrical Chronicle , and Lives of Saints , attributed to Robert of Gloucester ; Langtoft's Metrical Chronicle , translated by Robert of Brunne , and the Handlyng Synne ...
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... replaced the infinitive ending -an ( -en ) as , drinc - an = to drink . 76. There is a tendency in all languages to simplify whatever has become complex or obsolete . Thus the plural suffix -s has replaced various others , in eyes ...
... replaced the infinitive ending -an ( -en ) as , drinc - an = to drink . 76. There is a tendency in all languages to simplify whatever has become complex or obsolete . Thus the plural suffix -s has replaced various others , in eyes ...
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adjectives adverbs alphabet ARITHMETIC BALFOUR STEWART become blind-e called Cambridge century we find Chaucer cloth compounds conjugation consonant Crown 8vo Cursor Cursor Mundi dative declension derivatives ELEMENTARY TREATISE Extra fcap fcap feminine Flat fourteenth century gender genitive German GRAMMAR Greek Grimm's law Gutturals HISTORY Husbondrie indefinite INDICATIVE MOOD inflexions language late Fellow Latin letters M.E. we find Masc masculine Master Mathematical Modern English modern French Neut neuter Norman-French numerous Examples O.E. Plays occurs Old English older oldest English originally Owens College passive participle PAST PASS past tense period person Piers Plowman Plur prefix preposition Pres Professor pronouns replaced revised Romance root Schools Second Edition Shakespeare Sharp Sing singular sometimes sounds speech Spenser ster strong verbs subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD substantives suffix syllable Teutonic Third Edition thirteenth century thou verbal vowel vowel change weak verbs Wicliffe words
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