This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... Introduction. There is no derivative-ending in the English language which is turned to such a number and variety of uses as the verbal ending-ing. The words formed by it belong to several different parts of speech and by their frequency and importance influence essentially the character of the language. A ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... Introduction. There is no derivative-ending in the English language which is turned to such a number and variety of uses as the verbal ending-ing. The words formed by it belong to several different parts of speech and by their frequency and importance influence essentially the character of the language. A division of them into the classes iof participles, nouns, adjectives, and prepositions, does not comprise all the cases of their extensive range. For besides these unmixed uses, there is one more, of a hybrid kind, which participates of the properties both of a noun and a verb, and by its pliant and easy nature has been widely spread in the language. That this variety of signification, by which one and the same word may be sometimes a verb, sometimes a noun, sometimes half of each, must be traced to a variety of source, is a well established fact. Scientific grammarians have shown, conclusively, that the, modern English verbal form in-ing originated in a gradual approach and final blending together of several old forms of different meaning which took place in that period during which Anglo-Saxon was transforming by degrees into modern English. But concerning the causes and manner of the change, their opinions vary considerably. Have the, internal laws of the language effected independently the assimilation of the original forms or has foreign influence also cooperated promotingly? What was the relative attractive power of the forms and, consequently, the way in-which they moved towards each other? At what dates did they pass through the successive stages of the assimilating process? And even, what old forms have contributed to the result? These are all important questions differently answered. It cannot be regarded then as an unnecessary or..
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