The Four Periods of English

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  1. 3. A lexical dialect of Old English that carried around 50 000 words
  2. 6. A morphological case that remained in Middle English from Old English, referring to an indirect object
  3. 7. How many new letters were added to the alphabet during Middle English?
  4. 8. From which century of Modern English to now has there been shifts in how some vowels are pronounced?
  5. 11. From which language did Early Modern English borrow a large amount of words to denote abstract ideas and concepts?
  6. 12. What type of inflectional morpheme merged with dative in the pronoun system during Early Modern English?
  7. 14. What suffix was used to express second-person singular present tense verbs in the indicative mood in Early Modern English?
  8. 16. A language from which all varieties of Middle English borrowed words
  9. 17. Term for a language (e.g. Old English) that relies more on inflectional morphemes to convey the grammatical role of lexemes, rather than word order
  10. 18. What was added to a morpheme to form a weak verb in Old English?
  11. 19. What is the name for the symbols or characters (e.g. letters and punctuation marks) used to represent certain phonemes in Old English?
  12. 20. During the expansion of which Empire were there extensive lexical borrowings in Modern English?
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  1. 1. The grammatical role of a noun that referred to a subject in Old English, denoted by cases (systems of inflectional morphemes)
  2. 2. Which non-gender-specific personal pronoun fell out of usage at the start of the Modern English period but has seen a resurgence in the 21st century?
  3. 4. What type of morpheme was there a decrease in the use of during Middle English?
  4. 5. What language did the syntactical order of Middle English change to align with?
  5. 9. What component of proper names is being corrected in Modern English?
  6. 10. Which other language did Early Modern English borrow a large amount of words from to denote abstract ideas and concepts?
  7. 13. What is the process that grammar books in Modern English perform to make syntactic patterns more regular?
  8. 15. What auxiliary verb other than ‘to have’ could also be used to form the past tense in Early Modern English?