What is Latin Grammar? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
2015年1月12日 · So, learning Latin grammar seemed like an easier way to learn the grammatical concepts of English. For example, Dorothy Sayers (1893–1957) said “To embark on any complex English construction without the Latin Grammar is like trying to find one's way across country without map or signposts.” The idea that Latin and English grammar do not ...
etymology - Does understanding Greek as well as Latin help for ...
2023年3月12日 · Latin Grammar used to be elementary in English Education (cf. Glamorous Grammar, History of English Podcast by Kevin Stroud), so I won't say that it is not important. For example, to know how graffiti derives from grafe "stylus" and sculpture from scalpo is not immediately answered by an academic dictionary like the TLFi (Tresor de la langue ...
Why isn’t the third person singular used in “The Lord bless you”?
2020年10月5日 · I can recommend Goldman, English Grammar for Students of Latin for more on the verb systems of those to languages, and I learned Old English from Mitchell and Robinson, A Guide to Old English. For Latin I can recommend Allen and Greenough, New Latin Grammar, Bennet, New Latin Grammar, (which were "new" in the late 1800s) and Woodcock, A New ...
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2015年1月12日 · "Nominal" (or, better, "nominal group") is the term that is used by some linguists for "noun phrase," according to en.wikipedia. Google for grammar term nominal. In Latin grammar "nomen" was the term for all word classes with a declension (substantives, adjectives, pronouns). The adjective form of "nomen" is "nominal."
Using "dangling preposition - English Language Learners Stack …
2020年12月3日 · This was the logic that was used hundreds of years ago when some people thought that English should be more like Latin. Since prepositions need to appear before the object of the preposition in Latin, even when asking questions, these misguided scholars tried to force this rule onto the English language.
What is the meaning of the word 'pace'? - English Language …
2014年12月21日 · The word pace is a Latin word, not an English word with a Latin root. For this reason, it’s usually written in italics when it occurs in an English sentence. It’s a form of pax, which is Latin for “peace”. Pace means “if so-and-so will permit” or …
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2014年11月30日 · @rogermue The English term is an exact analog of the one from your Latin grammar: it's predicate adjective. In the example "Apples are delicious," 'delicious' is a predicate adjective; contrast this with "Delicious apples" where the same word is an attributive adjective. The examples in your last paragraph are not predicate adjectives though.
Is ending a sentence with a preposition acceptable?
When the study of grammar came to Britain it was based on Latin and French, both of which lack a concept of particles (at least in the sense that German and English have them). So the early grammarians disdained the idea of seeing words that can be used as prepositions also being placed at the end of clauses and sentences.
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In itself and of itself are loan translations from Latin in se and per se.In the fields of philosophy and law these have very precise technical meanings, and the combined phrase in and of itself should be left unmodified when used by an expert speaking of matters in those fields.
grammar - Is infinitival "TO" a preposition? - English Language ...
The idea that English sentences should not end with prepositions comes from a time when it was fashionable to try to understand English in terms of Latin word functions. While there's a lot of English words with Latin roots, English grammar itself is Germanic based and very different from Latin, so applying the same concepts on a grammar level ...