THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE LECTURE 4

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Across
  1. 3. masculine, neuter and feminine
  2. 4. the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection
  3. 6. -- a very old way of building the degrees of comparison: god – bettra – bet(e)st, lytel – læssa – læst.
Down
  1. 1. A grammatical category is a class of units (such as noun and verb) or features (such as number and case) that share a common set of characteristics
  2. 2. a word with only one syllable
  3. 5. is a grammatical category of the noun which serves to express relations between a substance denoted by a noun and other words in a sentence and which is manifested in some formal sign in a noun itself
  4. 7. There are primary adjectives, dating back from the very old times and derivative adjectives made by adjective-forming suffixes from nouns.