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English developed from the Germanic Anglo-Saxon language.

However, over the centuries it has absorbed, word,s phrases and some grammar from French, Latin, Greek, Spanish, Celtic and Norse languages.

The word 'Grammar' , means 'Greek teaching/learning' , because the Classical Greeks, where the first civilisation to structure language into nouns, verbs, sentences etc.,

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