The English Language: An Introduction; Background for Writing

adjectives adverb allophones American Ancrene auxiliary base become borrowed words called Caxton's Celtic century chased the wheels Chaucer common complement compounds consonant constituents construction contrast Danelaw derivational dialect Dictionary digraph diphthong educated England English speakers English vocabulary especially example fact French words function words Germanic grammatical graphemes Greek guage indicate Indo-European inflectional isoglosses kind language large number Latin lexical units linguistic lish marked meaning Middle English Middle English period Midland modern English modifier morphemes native speakers native words normal Norse noun phrase Old English origin pandle passage phonemes phonological phrase phonological system phonological word pitch plural position predicate preposition pronoun pronunciation Proto-Indo-European regional resonant consonant riwle Roman rules sentence simple sometimes sound speech spelling spoken standard English stem stress structure style suffix syllable tense tion uneducated usage usually variety verb phrase vowel writing system