Syntactic changes in Middle English

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Across
  1. 5. placement | The shift of verbs to a more fixed position in sentences
  2. 8. influence | The impact of Norman French on English syntax
  3. 9. agreement | The rule that subjects and verbs must match in person and number
  4. 10. adjectives | Adjectives with different inflectional patterns
  5. 12. | Helping verbs that became more common in Middle English
  6. 14. | Words used more often after case endings disappeared
  7. 16. loss | The disappearance of grammatical gender in nouns
  8. 18. grammar | A grammar system based on separate words rather than endings
  9. 19. clauses | Clauses beginning with who, which, that
Down
  1. 1. influence | The effect of Norse languages on English structure
  2. 2. | The way negative sentences were formed in Middle English
  3. 3. order | The arrangement of words in a sentence
  4. 4. | The way ownership was shown using -es or of
  5. 6. loss | The reduction of grammatical endings in Middle English
  6. 7. clauses | Dependent clauses introduced by because, when, if
  7. 11. adjectives | Old English adjectives marked by inflections
  8. 12. placement | The position of adjectives before nouns
  9. 13. order | The fixed Subject–Verb–Object pattern in Middle English
  10. 15. structure | A grammar type that relies on word order instead of inflections
  11. 17. reduction | The decline of the Old English case system