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Excerpt from A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon Tongue: A Grammar After Erasmus Rask, Extracts in Prose and Verse, With Notes Etc., For the Use of Learners, and an Appendix
The hyphen is used throughout to divide the parts of compound words from each other, as also prefixes, and when needful, case-endings and other terminations, from roots; in this as in other tongues, the beginner must accustom himself to parse not only every word in a phrase, but every syllable in a word.
Some rules for gender have been attempted, and a list of exceptions to the general rule of its agreement with the German, together with comparative tables of the cardinal numbers, and of the chief tenses, are added.
The accent, sometimes misplaced or left out by Rask, and too often altogether neglected by others, has been carefully attended to.
Some acquaintance with Icelandic and the other old northern tongues.
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