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This use of English -ing is thus cognate with the -ing suffix of Dutch, West Frisian, and the North Germanic languages, and with German-ung. The -ing of Modern English in its participial (adjectival) use comes from Middle English -inge, -ynge, supplanting the earlier -inde, -ende, -and, from the Old English present participle ending -ende.
ING-DiBa is Germany's third biggest bank by the number of customers (c. 9 million). [52] [53] In 2016, the bank reported total assets of €158 billion and had around 3,900 employees. ING bought 49% of Allgemeine Deutsche Direktbank AG in 1998, which as of 1989 traded as DiBa. It acquired a further 21% of the company in 2002 and the remainder ...
English-language learners are shown to benefit from word walls because of the visual element and words that are pre-selected as appropriate for the student to use. [8] For example, students learning English may refer to the word wall to use academic language in classroom conversations.
Like the -ing suffix, the to-infinitive spread historically from a narrow original use, a prepositional phrase referring to future time. Like the -ing form it spread to all English verbs and to form non-finite clauses. Like the -ing form, it spread by analogy to use with words of similar meaning.
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain after its Roman occupiers left.
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Ings is an old word of Old English origin referring to water meadows and marshes. The term appears in place names in Yorkshire (such as Hall Ings, Bradford , Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve , Clifton Ings in York , Derwent Ings , Sutton Ings , Acaster South Ings , and Wetherby Ings ), as well as in Cumbria , [ 1 ] and in Lincolnshire .