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... past tense by change of vowel . 6. Adjectives forming their degrees of comparison irregularly . II . 1. Grammatical ... past tenses , of active and passive participles . ( c ) Suffixes denoting degrees of comparison . III . 1. Numerous ...
... past tense by change of vowel . 6. Adjectives forming their degrees of comparison irregularly . II . 1. Grammatical ... past tenses , of active and passive participles . ( c ) Suffixes denoting degrees of comparison . III . 1. Numerous ...
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... past tense : - Singular . ( 1 ) makede Plural . makeden made Weak , ( 2 ) makedes makeden ( 3 ) makede makeden " " ( 1 ) schop Strong . ( 2 ) schop ( 3 ) schop schop - en schop - en schop - en = created , shaped " " " " Here we see two ...
... past tense : - Singular . ( 1 ) makede Plural . makeden made Weak , ( 2 ) makedes makeden ( 3 ) makede makeden " " ( 1 ) schop Strong . ( 2 ) schop ( 3 ) schop schop - en schop - en schop - en = created , shaped " " " " Here we see two ...
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... past indicative end -en or -e . The imperative plural ends in -eth . -est ... participle ends usually in -ing ( inge ) . The passive participle of strong ... tense of ( Verbal e . ) ( Chaucer . ) Towards the end of this period the use ...
... past indicative end -en or -e . The imperative plural ends in -eth . -est ... participle ends usually in -ing ( inge ) . The passive participle of strong ... tense of ( Verbal e . ) ( Chaucer . ) Towards the end of this period the use ...
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... tense , & c . , and is merely an abstract substantive ; ( 5 ) participles are adjectives . 260. The tenses are three ( a ) present , ( b ) past , ( c ) future . An action may be stated with reference to time , present , past , and ...
... tense , & c . , and is merely an abstract substantive ; ( 5 ) participles are adjectives . 260. The tenses are three ( a ) present , ( b ) past , ( c ) future . An action may be stated with reference to time , present , past , and ...
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... past tenses . I am going to praise I was going to praise I shall be going to praise is called intentional present ... tense , into ( a ) strong verbs , ( b ) weak verbs . Strong Verbs . - The past tense of strong verbs is expressed by a ...
... past tenses . I am going to praise I was going to praise I shall be going to praise is called intentional present ... tense , into ( a ) strong verbs , ( b ) weak verbs . Strong Verbs . - The past tense of strong verbs is expressed by a ...
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adjectives adverbs Ayenbite become blindan Cæsar century we find Chaucer cloth cognate compounds connecting vowel consonants Crown 8vo dative declension Edition ending fcap feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek indefinite infinitive inflections inflexion language later forms Latin masc masculine 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 passive participle Past Indicative past tense PERF perfect period we find personal pronouns plural prefix preposition PRES Present Indicative prisun Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester root Sansk Sanskrit SECOND PERIOD Shakespeare silf Sing singular sometimes Southern Spenser stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix superlative syllable Teutonic ther THIRD PERIOD thirteenth and fourteenth thirteenth century thou vowel weak verbs West Midland Wickliffe writers þæt þat
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