Teaching a Quarterly Technical Journal for Teachers March 1931

A special feature of the series is the wealth of copyright material included in the books enabling them to be reprsentative of the modern as well as of the older poets. [...] In most of the existing hooks on the subject the history of Magadha is narrated in one chapter that ut Malwa in another the history of the Heccan in a third and that of south India in a fourth. [...] Sometimes the language of the English teacher in conversation and in class seems nearer the English of the Victorian age than that of the twentieth century. [...] Shall we try to understand them ?98 SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN ENGLISH The Thesis Some of the numerous features of modern English are the great size and mixed origin of its vocabulary the power of forming copounds without indicating by formal means the relation of the parts of the compounds made the freedom with which the function of words is varied the fixed word order and absence of inf [...] The natural order which seems to be the only logical order is for the Subject to precede the Predicate and for this to be followed by the Object : any enlargements of the verb to go either before or after the object-words.