English Words - Valencia
English Words
2,000,000+ words in English
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The Language
?-1100 Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
1400. Middle English
1400-X Modern English
Dialects
Country trunk/boot, hood/bonnet, eraser/rubber
Occupational program JARGON
Public/Media “Oh, behave!” “I’ll be back!” Generation X
Regional pop/soda, bag/sack, youse/y’all/you guys COLLOQUIAL
Spoken cop, could of, iffy
Temporal cat’s meow/groovy/bad/whack/off the chain SLANG
Roots of English (as demonstrated by the spice cabinet)
Chili chili Nahuatl (Aztec language group)
Cinnamon qinnamown Hebrew
Cumin kuminon Greek
Curry kuri Tamil (a language group of India)
Mint minta Germanic
Paprika paprika Hungarian
Pepper pippali Scandinavian
Sage salvia Latin
Salt sealt Old English
Sugar sukkar Arabic
Vanilla vainilla Spanish
Irregularities: spelling, pronunciation
bough, cough, dough, tough, through
boo, coup, do, knew, lieu, Pooh, queue, rue, two, view, who
lead, read, minute, bow, wound tomato, Carribean
goose, moose, mongoose geese, moose, mongooses
Parts of Speech
Adjective modifies noun or pronoun
Adverb modifies adjective, adverb, or verb
Conjunction connects or links words, phrases or sentences
Interjection expresses emotion or commands attention; can stand alone
Noun is a person, place or thing
Preposition introduces a modifying clause
Pronoun substitutes for noun
Verb shows action or being
Parts of a Sentence
Direct Object receives the activity
Indirect Object receives the direct object
Object of the Preposition part of adjectival or adverbial phrase
Predicate action or being Required for a Sentence
Predicate Adjective description of subject
Predicate Nominative restatement of subject
Subject acts or is Required for a Sentence
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