Across
- 2. Is less synthetic and less inflectional than Old English
- 5. The name of the period, where progressive the “be + -ing” construction was required
- 7. The smallest units of language, the smallest meaningful parts of a word
- 8. The only inflection to be lost after 1700, the second personal singular ending
Down
- 1. Describes inflectional change of verbs
- 2. The branch of linguistics that studies word structures
- 3. Describes inflectional change of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, determiners
- 4. The name of the period, where all kinds of writing in English were proliferated (as there was a reading public willing to pay).
- 6. Has 3 types: indicative, subjunctive, imperative