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and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine cases all of these particulars would have to be thought of in the selection of the form of the verb, when no valuable purpose would be accomplished thereby.
In the development of the English, as well as the French and German, linguistic evolution has not been in vain.
Judged by these criteria, the English stands alone in the highest rank; but as a written language, in the way in which its alphabet is used, the English has but emerged from a barbaric condition.
INDEX. Page Adjective, The, in Indian tongues 10 Adverbial particles 13 Adverbs in Indian tongues 10, 11, 13 Agglutination in language 4 Article pronouns in Indian languages 9, 10
Combination in Indian tongues 7 in language, Process of, 3, 7 Comparison, of English with Indian 15 Compounding in language 3 Connotation of Indian nouns 8
Derivation, how accomplished 7 Differentiation of parts of speech 8
Evolution of language 3
Gender in Indian languages 9 Grammatic processes, agglutination 4 ----, combination 3 ----, compounding 3 ----, inflection 4 ----, intonation 6 ----, juxtaposition 3 ----, placement 7, 8 ----, vocalic mutation 5
Indian tongues, Relative position of 15 Inflection in English language 14 in language 4 ----, Paradigmatic 7, 15 Juxtaposition in language 3
Language, Evolution of 3-16 ----, Processes of 3-8
Modal particles 13 Mode in Indian tongues 12 Modification, how accomplished 7 Mutation, Vocalic 5
Nouns in Indian tongues 11
Paradigmatic inflection 7, 15 Particles, Adverbial 13 ----, Modal 13 ----, Pronominal 13 ----, Tense 13 Placement, Process of 6-8 Prepositions in Indian tongues 11 Processes of language 3-8 Pronominal particles 13 Pronouns in Indian languages 9
Speech, Differentiation of parts of 8 Syntactic relation, how accomplished 7
Tense in Indian tongues 12 particles 13
Verbs in English language 14 in Indian tongues 10, 11 Vocalic mutation in language, Process of 5

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