| 单词 | Modern English |
| 例句 | Specimens of Anglo-Saxon, and the same literally translated into Modern English. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z The essence of irony, Henry Fowler wrote in “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage,” is that it “postulates a double audience” — one that’s in on the joke, and another that isn’t. A Meticulous Account of Trump’s Tenure Reads Like a Comic Horror Story 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Modern English translations are often slightingly compared to the King James, unfairly so. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z Instead the group, which formed in Kissimmee, spent most of the night shooting for Joy Division and landing at Modern English. 2010-01-15T04:19:00Z Laurel prefers the more generous boundaries around language that she finds, when her daughter starts preschool, in reading Fowler’s “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage.” In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z As Modern English sang all those years ago, “The future’s open wide.” Echosmith keeps it all in the family and all sincerely positive The fourth edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage was released on April 8, 2016, by Oxford University Press. 5 Common Words That Used to Be Totally Unacceptable 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z And finally a quibble: the popular kids wouldn't have been listening to Modern English. Did You Watch ‘Stranger Things’? Let’s Talk About It 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Burchfield, in his “New Fowler’s Modern English Usage,” found that “ ‘like’ as a conjunction is struggling towards acceptable standard or neutral ground,” but he concluded that it wasn’t there yet. Can something be totally unique? Steven Pinker’s new book says yes. It’s got Old English on one side and Modern English on the other, you should check it out. ‘Twin Peaks,’ ‘Relative’ star Wendy Robie shares what’s on her bookshelf 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z According to "Fowler's Modern English Usage," there should be, in this case, no comma after "Militia" because what we see in the amendment is an instance of something called "absolute construction." Amy Coney Barrett and the Second Amendment: Why her "expansive view" is utter BS 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Oliver’s most recognizable work includes the covers of the Pixies album “Doolittle,” the Cocteau Twins’ “Treasure,” the Breeders’ “Last Splash,” Modern English’s “After the Snow” and Bush’s “Razorblade Suitcase.” Vaughan Oliver, designer of iconic album covers for 4AD Records, dies at 62 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z In the United States, the Merriam-Webster dictionary is particularly prominent, said Bryan A. Garner, a lexicographer and the author of “Garner’s Modern English Usage,” which is published by Oxford University Press. When Dictionaries Wade Into the Gender (Non)Binary 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z As he followed along from Texas, Bryan A. Garner, the author of “Garner’s Modern English Usage,” could feel his blood pressure steadily rising. Trump’s Twitter War on Spelling 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Modern English has benefited greatly from countless German words that have made their way into daily use, including “angst,” “zeitgeist” and “uber,” each with slight variations on their original meaning. Some Words Defy Translation. Angela Merkel Showed Why. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Rather than paper over this uncertainty, McKay decided to dramatize it in a particularly audacious way: Bale and Adams begin speaking in a Shakespearean approximation of Early Modern English. Why the Director of ‘Anchorman’ Decided to Take On Dick Cheney 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Oliver, whose death was announced on Sunday, crafted abstract, Dada-esque record covers for dozens of bands including the Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Modern English, the Breeders and His Name is Alive. Vaughan Oliver, designer of iconic album covers for 4AD Records, dies at 62 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z It depends, said Bryan A. Garner, a grammarian who is the author of “Garner’s Modern English Usage.” Trump Uses Random Uppercase Letters, but Should You? An Issue of Capital Importance 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The notable exception is Atarah Valentine’s lovely acoustic rendition of the Modern English hit, “I Melt With You,” performed during an inspirational seaside sunrise. In the musical odyssey 'Wanderland,' a bit of twee goes a long way 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z I sat down with the lead singer Robbie Grey to discuss the appeal of that hit, the joy of being on the road and Modern English’s new CD, “Take Me to the Trees.” Modern English singer Robbie Grey talks Retro Futura tour 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z He has even become an eponym: “Garner’s Modern English Usage,” the fourth edition of his widely acclaimed guide to stringing words together well, dropped in April. How to Write Like Antonin Scalia 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Our live sound is much more energetic than our record – it’s like a mix between early Coil, early Modern English, early DAF and early Jesus & Mary Chain, especially the JMC shows from 85. Q&A: SXSW 2016's must-see music acts introduce themselves 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Clarity was Eleanor’s lodestar, “Fowler’s Modern English” her bible, and by the time she was done with a proof the pencil lines on it looked like dreadlocks. Confessions of a Comma Queen 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z As the great Henry Fowler, author of “A Dictionary of Modern English Usage,” said, the ultimate arbiter of correctness of a word or a phrase is usage. Continuous and Discrete 2013-06-11T16:45:00.183Z The one song everyone in the place will go the wildest for is “I Melt With You” by Modern English. Modern English singer Robbie Grey talks Retro Futura tour 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Henry Fowler, author of the Dictionary of Modern English Usage, published in 1926, summed up the debate as follows. The people who hate other people's bad grammar 2013-05-13T08:58:14Z Modern English poets who have written Shakespearean sonnets are few in number. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z A sketch of Modern English Reformers, which should omit special mention of Charles, Earl Grey, would be defective. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z In treating of Modern English Gardening, it is difficult to make our way along the tortuous path of change, development it is not, that set in with the banishment of Art in a garden. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z Q: What did you do in the years Modern English wasn’t active? Modern English singer Robbie Grey talks Retro Futura tour 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z By contrast to what we know of the merrie English men and women of the Thirteenth Century, I would quote Mr. Hunter's paragraphs on the Poverty of the Modern English People. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z In the plural, when accompanied by the pronoun subject, the verb had already dropped the inflections entirely as in Modern English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Modern English politics may be fairly said to begin about the accession of George III. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z And yet his chapter on “The Mentality of Modern English Anti-Semitism” shrewdly relates bullying to the puzzle of what appears to be an incessant prejudice, never to be dispelled. Book Review - Trials of the Diaspora - By Anthony Julius 2010-05-07T14:49:00Z Later, however, se, sēo, ��t comes to be used in the common and vague sense in which the definite article is used in Modern English. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn Modern English is drawing largely from the Greek language for its new words. alliteration. Stories from Tagore So thoroughly modern had its form consequently become that we might almost call it Modern English, and say that the Middle English stage of the northern dialect is lost. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z This is by all odds the longest Modern English poem in alexandrines, and while the verse is often agreeable, it illustrates the unfitness of the measure—to English ears—for long, continuous poems. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History His verse, of which specimens are given in Southey's Modern English Poets, is purely eighteenth century. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Uniformity of treatment has been studiously preserved in the new material and the old, the emphasis in both being placed on syntax and upon the affinities that Old English shares with Modern English. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary A more frequent use of min and thin, for my and thy;—in contradistinction to both Middle and Modern English. A Handbook of the English Language In the productions of Caxton’s press we see the passage from Middle to Early Modern English completed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Modern English civilisation has entirely failed to produce men who can be at once gentlemen and fiery lovers. Too Old for Dolls A Novel Modern English type and script are rather simple to the eye. English: Composition and Literature The last period is that of Modern English, or the period of lost inflections. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The use of heo for she;—in contradistinction to Middle and Modern English and Old Lowland Scotch. A Handbook of the English Language The earlier of these have still an occasional verbal plural in -n, especially in the word they ben; the southern her and hem of Middle English vary with the northern and Modern English their, them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Modern English contains some six or seven hundred pairs or sets of homonyms, i.e., of words identical in sound and spelling but differing in meaning and origin. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) He devoted himself at this time to the composition of two volumes of a "Guide to Modern English History." Ionica Such knowledge will also serve as the best introduction to the structure both of Middle English and of Modern English, besides laying a secure foundation for the scientific study of any other Germanic tongue. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Contrast the syntax of the Anglo-Saxon with the Modern English adjective. A Handbook of the English Language The distinctive features of Modern English have already been anticipated by way of contrast with preceding stages of the language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Modern English, 1603-1900.—The grammar of the language was fixed before this period, most of the accidence having entirely vanished. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Modern English, and especially colloquial English, has borrowed a great deal from the American way of speaking English. Stories That Words Tell Us Under the influence of Analogy, entire declensions and conjugations have been swept away, leaving in Modern English not a trace of their former existence. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary In the Modern English, the Old English, and the Anglo-Saxon, the peculiarities of our personal inflections are very great. A Handbook of the English Language This is not true except of Modern English only. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays Modern English differs from the oldest English as a giant oak does from a small oak sapling, or a broad stalwart man of forty does from a feeble infant of a few months old. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 This document presents at first sight many 77 unfamiliar forms, but really differs from Modern English mainly in the spelling, which of course represents the pronunciation of that period. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day Of these dialects, Modern English is most nearly akin to the Mercian; but the best known of them is the West Saxon. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary In other words, the Anglo-Saxon and the Old English have a plural personal characteristic, whilst the Modern English has nothing to correspond with it. A Handbook of the English Language There seems to be in Modern English a growing tendency toward phonetic spelling in the past tense and past participle of weak verbs. An English Grammar Tudor English, 1485-1603 V. Modern English, 1603-1900 These periods merge very slowly, or are shaded off, so to speak, into each other in the most gradual way. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 It had, by this time, become almost the standard language, differing from Modern English chiefly in date, and consequently in pronunciation. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day There is little difference between the values of Old English consonants and those of Modern English. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The first is from a Father of the Roman Church, the second from a Father of the Anglican, and the third from a Father of Modern English poetry. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell In Modern English the same use is frequently seen, but the form is the same as the objective. An English Grammar Modern English we read with facility; and that which was good two centuries ago, though considerably antiquated, is still easily understood. The Grammar of English Grammars Modern English literature as a whole is permeated and enriched to an incalculable degree with the substance and spirit of the English Bible. A History of English Literature Note.—The general rule in Old English, as in Modern English, is, that voiced consonants have a special affinity for other voiced consonants, and voiceless for voiceless. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Modern English is no more unlike Anglo-Saxon than a bearded man is unlike his former childish self. Halleck's New English Literature In earlier Modern English, any was often singular; as,— If any, speak; for him have I offended.—Shakespeare. An English Grammar Note: Modern English has lost this important distinction. The first New Testament printed in English Modern English literature began with Chaucer, in the fourteenth century, and has been full of great names and great books ever since. England and the War The gender of Old English nouns, unlike that of Modern English, depends partly on meaning and partly on form, or ending. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Modern English is the Old English worn and improved by use, and enriched by a large infusion of Norman-French words, with less important additions from the Latin and other languages. General History for Colleges and High Schools According to the approved usage of Modern English, each one of the above adjectives would have to be changed to the singular, or the nouns to the plural. An English Grammar Modern English houses are less showy than ours, and have more weight and permanence,—no flat roofs and no painted outside shutters. Winter Sunshine As the home administrator, no less than as the theological controversialist, Andrew Fuller stands only second to William Carey, the founder of Modern English Missions. Life of William Carey Modern English “I go home tomorrow,” or “I am going home tomorrow” for “I shall go home tomorrow.” Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Modern English polite society, my native sphere, seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it. An Unsocial Socialist The order of words in Old English is more like that of Modern German than of Modern English. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary But substantival datives and accusatives, as in Modern English, follow the predicate. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary |
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