I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited … - Robert Burchfield

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Robert Burchfield

I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.

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