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Adjectives and Adverbs list ADJECTIVES ADVERBS abrupt abruptly absolute absolutely accidental accidentally active actively actual actually adamant adamantly additional additionally affectionate affectionately alphabetic alphabetically angry angrily annual annually anxious anxiously apparent apparently appreciative appreciatively apprehensive apprehensively appropriate appropriately approving approvingly approximate approximately apt aptly ardent ardently arduous arduously arguable arguably attentive attentively attractive attractively audible audibly awkward awkwardly bad badly beautiful beautifully bitter bitterly boastful boastfully bold boldly brave bravely brief briefly bright brightly brilliant brilliantly brutal brutally busy busily calm calmly careful carefully careless carelessly casual casually cautious cautiously certain certainly cheap cheaply cheerful cheerfully clean cleanly clear clearly clever cleverly close closely comfortable comfortably complete completely conclusive 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The English Language The popularity of English A lot has been written about The English Language and its the popularity. English does appear to be an extremely popular language and is studied all over the world. Business people require English in order to communicate with foreign partners, students study English to complement their studies, and people who travel seem to like English in order to be able to communicate in another language other than the language of their destination. English appears to be the ‘lingua franca’* of the world at this time. There are various points of view around the usefulness and the politics of the use of English. We should note that the English language is not the language spoken by most people in the World, but it has grown to become the language most widely spoken across the World. * Lingua Franca – a common language adopted by speakers of different languages. A few brief facts: About 400 million people speak English as their first language. Perhaps 300 Million people speak English as their second language. A billion people are learning English at this time. Nearly half of the world has been exposed to English. The reason why English is the most widely spoken language across the World may have a lot to do with the history of the English language itself. English has not always been the English we speak and read today. A little about the history of The English Language The Celts and Romans Before the invasion of the Romans in AD 43, Britain was an island populated by Celtic tribes who had arrived from Europe around 500 years earlier. When the Romans arrived in Britain the Celtic ‘Britons’ would have spoken one of a handful of Celtic or early English languages. Britons would have had their own dialects – lexicon and pronunciation (words and the sounds of words). Interestingly, today within the British Isles we still possess diverse regional dialects and accents and may on occasion have difficulties understanding each other. Most of those countries that people recognise as speaking English as a first language: America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have very distinct accents too, and may also have difficulties understanding one another. The ‘Celtic’ languages that existed across the British Isles did not die out with the invasion of the Romans in AD 43 (the Romans had originally invaded in 55 BC). Effectively, the Country was then governed in Latin, and people would have come to understand Latin for administration purposes; they would have continued their daily lives in their local languages or dialects. After nearly 500 years in Britain the Romans left (440 AD), they left behind a distinct Romano-British culture and the addition of the Latin language to that of the domestic ‘Brittonic’ languages. Latin would have a continued influence after that time with the conversion of Britain to ‘Roman’ Christianity. The Danes and Vikings – Ye Olde English Many people believe that the ‘English’ language originated from West Germanic dialects, which came to the British Isles with invaders. After the Romans left Britain, Britain, which had always had trading relationships with its Scandinavian and European neighbours, fell to invasion by them. Between 440 AD and 1066 AD, invasions, initially by tribes called ‘Angles’ and ‘Saxons’ from what is now Northern Germany and Denmark brought further languages to Britain. The Anglo-Saxon tribes colonised the South East and East of Britain, replacing the British tribes who had lived there. It would be the ‘Angles’ who would give their name to ‘English’, and England. Later invasions...
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Qualitative Adjectives Adjective and Adverb list Comparative and Superlative list Everyday conversations Irregular verb List Irregular verbs list 1 Irregular verbs list 2 Irregular verbs list 3 Much Many and some Phrasal Verbs 1 Phrasal verbs 2 Phrasal verbs 3 Phrasal Verbs 4 Prepositions 1 Prepositions 2 Prepositions...
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