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A Brief History of Spain, 1701. The Ancient and Present State of Portugal, 1701, (based on Faria y Sousa's Europa Portuguesa). The Lives and Actions of all the Sovereigns of Bavaria, 1706. A Spanish–English and English–Spanish Dictionary, with Grammar, 1706; 1726.
Most native English speakers today find Old English unintelligible, even though about half of the most commonly used words in Modern English have Old English roots. [12] The grammar of Old English was much more inflected than modern English, combined with freer word order , and was grammatically quite similar in some respects to modern German .
With regard to subject pronouns, Spanish is a pro-drop language, meaning that the verb phrase can often stand alone without the use of a subject pronoun (or a subject noun phrase). In some cases, such as with impersonal verbs referring to meteorological ( llover , to rain; nevar , to snow) or other natural phenomena ( amanecer , to get light ...
While English is a subject-prominent language, at the discourse level it tends to use a topic-comment structure, where the known information (topic) precedes the new information (comment). Because of the strict SVO syntax, the topic of a sentence generally has to be the grammatical subject of the sentence.
The Spanish achievement of the sixteenth century was essentially the work of Castile, but so also was the Spanish disaster of the seventeenth; and it was Ortega y Gasset who expressed the paradox most clearly when he wrote what may serve as an epitaph on the Spain of the House of Austria: ‘Castile has made Spain, and Castile has destroyed it.’
Schools should only provide information on the history of religions as another subject, with special reference to the Catholic religion. If parents request it, the State should provide the means to provide this religious education, but always outside the school. Education should be free of charge, especially at primary level. For the university ...
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The Royal Academy of History (Spanish: Real Academia de la Historia, RAH) is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the different branches of life, of civilisation, and of the culture of the Spanish people".