The Philology of the English TongueClarendon Press, 1880 - 700 pagine |
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Pagina 166
... plural verb are like the word air : but not without observing that , in this instance , it is the modern pronunciation that runs counter to orthography . The following quotation from Wordsworth , Thoughts near the Residence of Burns ...
... plural verb are like the word air : but not without observing that , in this instance , it is the modern pronunciation that runs counter to orthography . The following quotation from Wordsworth , Thoughts near the Residence of Burns ...
Pagina 167
... plural aches , ' which appears as a disyllable in Shakspeare , Samuel Butler , and Swift . The latter , in his own edition of ' The City Shower ' has ' old aches throb ' - but modern printers , who had lost the two- syllable ...
... plural aches , ' which appears as a disyllable in Shakspeare , Samuel Butler , and Swift . The latter , in his own edition of ' The City Shower ' has ' old aches throb ' - but modern printers , who had lost the two- syllable ...
Pagina 201
... plural , Matt . xxviii . 9 , ' Hale wese ge , ' Hale be ye ! All hail . This also was at first purely adjectival , as in the following from Layamon , which is quoted and translated above , 47 : - al hal me makien mid haleweige drenchen ...
... plural , Matt . xxviii . 9 , ' Hale wese ge , ' Hale be ye ! All hail . This also was at first purely adjectival , as in the following from Layamon , which is quoted and translated above , 47 : - al hal me makien mid haleweige drenchen ...
Pagina 210
... plural form ; and then it is impossible to deny it the quality of a substantive ; for the adjective has no plural form in English grammar . Therefore the words irrationals and comestibles in the following quotations , though adjectives ...
... plural form ; and then it is impossible to deny it the quality of a substantive ; for the adjective has no plural form in English grammar . Therefore the words irrationals and comestibles in the following quotations , though adjectives ...
Pagina 211
... plural form goods , but also in such a construction as ' the good of the land of Egypt , ' Genesis xlv . 18 . And specially must the whilom adjective be called a substantive when it is suited with an adjective of its own . The ...
... plural form goods , but also in such a construction as ' the good of the land of Egypt , ' Genesis xlv . 18 . And specially must the whilom adjective be called a substantive when it is suited with an adjective of its own . The ...
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accent adjectival adjective adverb alphabet ancient Anglo-Saxon become BISHOP called Canterbury Tales century character Chaucer cloth compound conjunction consonant Danish dialect distinction English language example expression Extra fcap Faery Queene familiar flexion following quotation French words function German Gothic Gothic languages grammar Greek guttural habit haue Hebrew High Dutch illustration infinitive inflections instances interjection Italian John John Keble King Latin Layamon letter literature Lord means mind modern Mosogothic native nature noun observe old Saxon original Ormulum orthography participle person philology phonetic phrasal phrase plural poet poetry prefix preposition present preterite pronoun pronunciation reader relics rhyme rhythm Romanesque Saxon Second Edition seems sense sentence Shakspeare shew signifies singular sort sound speak speech spelling Spenser substantival substantive syllable symbolic words syntax termination thing thou tion traces translated verb vowel W. W. Skeat writing written žat