Elements of English Grammar: With a Chapter on Essay WritingUniversity Press, 1910 - 336 pages |
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... German race , ' but if we said that English , or Dutch , or Flemish , was a ' German ' language , the term might be misleading , as we commonly employ the word German in a narrower sense , to signify the language spoken to - day in ...
... German race , ' but if we said that English , or Dutch , or Flemish , was a ' German ' language , the term might be misleading , as we commonly employ the word German in a narrower sense , to signify the language spoken to - day in ...
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... German ' language is High German . Dutch , Flemish , spoken in parts of Belgium , and Frisian , still spoken in the districts from which our ancestors came , are Low German dialects . Thus the terms High and Low , as applied to German ...
... German ' language is High German . Dutch , Flemish , spoken in parts of Belgium , and Frisian , still spoken in the districts from which our ancestors came , are Low German dialects . Thus the terms High and Low , as applied to German ...
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... Germans and call this group the Scandinavian . 9. The Norman Conquest . The Normans , who established themselves in our country in A.D. 1066 , were originally , like the Danes , Northmen or Scandinavians . But they had been settled on ...
... Germans and call this group the Scandinavian . 9. The Norman Conquest . The Normans , who established themselves in our country in A.D. 1066 , were originally , like the Danes , Northmen or Scandinavians . But they had been settled on ...
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... German branch of the Teutonic stock . These English people came from the district north of the mouth of the Elbe at different times between A.D. 450 and 550 , and their descendants have stayed in this country ever since . 2. A.D. 600 to ...
... German branch of the Teutonic stock . These English people came from the district north of the mouth of the Elbe at different times between A.D. 450 and 550 , and their descendants have stayed in this country ever since . 2. A.D. 600 to ...
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... If we consider the ease with which long compound words can be formed in 1 See Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons , p . 105 . W. E. G. 2 modern German , it seems curious that our own Teutonic CONSTITUENTS OF THE VOCABULARY . 17.
... If we consider the ease with which long compound words can be formed in 1 See Abbott and Seeley's English Lessons , p . 105 . W. E. G. 2 modern German , it seems curious that our own Teutonic CONSTITUENTS OF THE VOCABULARY . 17.
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