History of English

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  1. 2. Rules of sentence structure
  2. 4. System of sounds in a language
  3. 7. The author associated with Early Modern English
  4. 8. Process describes the reduction of grammar forms
  5. 11. Language family English belongs to
  6. 17. The invasion of 1066 that influenced English vocabulary.
  7. 18. Period of English used by Chaucer
  8. 19. The language from which many scientific and legal words came.
Down
  1. 1. What happened to grammatical gender in Middle English?
  2. 3. A famous Old English epic poem
  3. 5. A famous writer of Middle English
  4. 6. What is Beowulf?
  5. 7. What happened to grammar in Middle English
  6. 9. The period of English used by Chaucer
  7. 10. Writing system used in early Germanic culture
  8. 12. Old English word for “king”
  9. 13. The oldest form of English
  10. 14. The Germanic tribe that invaded Britain along with Saxons and Jutes.
  11. 15. Set of rules in a language
  12. 16. Study of word origins