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 Bible century we find Chaucer Christ Christian Church cognate compounds connecting vowel Crown 8vo dative declension Edition Epistles Fcap feminine fourteenth century FOURTH PERIOD gender genitive Gospels Goth Gothic Grammar Greek infinitive inflections inflexion language later forms Latin Lectures masc masculine Maurice Midland modern English NEUT neuter Northern dialect nouns O. H. Ger 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 person plural preposition PRES pronouns Robert of Brunne Robert of Gloucester Romance root Sansk Sanskrit says Scripture SECOND PERIOD Sermons preached Shakespeare shew Sing singular sometimes Spenser stem strong verbs Subjunctive substantives suffix syllable Testament Teutonic THEOLOGICAL BOOKS THIRD PERIOD thou University of Cambridge volume vowel weak verbs words writers þæt þat