About 50% of all English words come from Latin and a large number of those have their ultimate origin in Greek.
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- Why is there an increasing number of words of Latin and Greek origin in para. 7? Consult a dictionary for the meaning and origin of each of these words.
- English Renaissance brought over 10000 new words from ______ and ______ into English language. A: Latin; Greek B: Latin; French C: French; German D: Greek; French
- Most of the affixes are derived from Old English, or from Latin and Greek.
- The vocabulary of the English is large because （） . A: the English do not like to speak other languages B: it came from different other languages C: many English words come from Latin D: Britain has a long history
- Most English prefixes come from the following languages except_____. A: Latin B: Old English C: Greek D: Spanish