The Language of Literature: English Grammar in ActionMacmillan, 1985 - 158 pagine Studie over de ontwikkeling van de Engelse grammatica sedert de 14e eeuw |
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Pagina 6
... loss we have sustained , that we are almost uninflected and we pretend that very little has happened . Well , that past tenses of ' weak ' verbs have lost - de but just kept the - d matters very little , that our word roof hasn't a ...
... loss we have sustained , that we are almost uninflected and we pretend that very little has happened . Well , that past tenses of ' weak ' verbs have lost - de but just kept the - d matters very little , that our word roof hasn't a ...
Pagina 10
... loss that does matter lies in our neglect of expressive parts of verbs , which are still available but are dying of ... loss , but the slow atrophy of the subjunctive mood of verbs has entailed a real loss of subtlety . 2 Middle English ...
... loss that does matter lies in our neglect of expressive parts of verbs , which are still available but are dying of ... loss , but the slow atrophy of the subjunctive mood of verbs has entailed a real loss of subtlety . 2 Middle English ...
Pagina 141
... loss of grammatical gender in nouns , and of the declined adjective , is no loss , but a matter for congratulation ; but the loss of a dative ' to / for ' case for nouns may now seem to readers a pity , the almost total victory of -s ...
... loss of grammatical gender in nouns , and of the declined adjective , is no loss , but a matter for congratulation ; but the loss of a dative ' to / for ' case for nouns may now seem to readers a pity , the almost total victory of -s ...
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Gothic Revival English | 10 |
Novels Social and Antisocial | 118 |
Critical and Devotional Prose | 132 |
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adjective adverb alliteration appear become beginning better called century child comes common course dative death effect expression eyes feminine final four French genitive give grammar hand happen heard heart Holy idiom indicative infinitive inflexions keep kind King land language Latin less linguistic live look Lord loss lost marks matter means Middle English Milton mind never night noun Old English once passage past participle past tense perhaps person phrase plural poem poet poetry possessive preposition present pronoun prose seemed seen sentence shows singular sound speak speech spelling strong style subjunctive suggests syllables syntax tee túm tee things thou thought túm tee túm turn verb verse vowel weak words write wrong