Historical Outlines of English Accidence: Comprising Chapters on the History and Development of the Language, and on Word Formation |
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adjectives adverb Ayenbite become Cambridge century we find Chaucer cloth cognate College compounds connecting vowel consonants contains Crown 8vo dative declension demonstrative Extra fcap fcap feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD French gender genitive Goth Gothic Grammar Greek indefinite infinitive inflections inflexion language later forms Latin masc masculine Midland 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 participle passive participle Past Indicative past tense PERF period we find plural preposition PRES Professor Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester root Sansk Sanskrit Schools Second Edition SECOND PERIOD Shakespeare silf Sing singular sometimes Southern Spenser stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix syllable Teutonic THIRD PERIOD thirteenth and fourteenth thirteenth century thou twelfth vowel weak verbs West Midland writers þæt þat