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3. Their greatest weakness was, of course,
their failure, and also.
They did not realize, or refused to acknowledge.
4. He pointed every time they refused to base their
statements perpetuate differences between the
written and spoken language.
5. At the root of all their mistakes
was their ignorance of the
processes of linguistic change.
6. The attempts to reform the vocabulary at this time
was given because everyone felt
competent to “purify” the language by
proscribing words and expressions.
7. Its beginnings the part of the formers
to prove the continuity
and independence of the English church
and its doctrines.
8. English was being ruined by the intrusion
of foreign words, especially French.
Defoe observed that “an Englishman has his
mouth full of borrowed phrases.
9. The knowledge of the language among the upper
classes in England was quite general,
equaled only by the ignorance of English on
the part of the French.
14. History of New Progressive Passive shows
that English is a living
and growing thing, that its grammar is not fixed,
that it will continue to change in the
future as it has changed, even if more slowly.
15. In the last years of the
eighteenth century we find the
first traces of our modern expression
the house is being built.
16. The events were the English settlements
at Jamestown and Plymouth.