Middle English Period

Which event affected the most the configuration of Middle English period?

(a)  

Tick two different invaders that came into the Isle

from Northern Europe to take control of it and its people.

• Danes

• Normans

• Picts

• French

Who defeated and killed Harold in the Battle of Hastings n 1066?

• Edward

• William

• Edward's cousin

• Anglo-Saxons

• The Confessor

After Norman Conquest. which words lower classes used to use?

• cow, beef, veal

• ox, mutton, pork

• venison, veal, pork

• sheep, cow, swine

When did the ME period finish?

• 1450 A.D.

• 1500 A.D.

• 1550 A.D.

• 1515 A.D.

ME was consolidated

as an analytic language which was achieved because stressed was fixed

which made inflectional endings unnecessary resulting in their loss.

• True

• False

When French was

completely eradicated in English Parliament?

• 1510

• 1498

• 1489

• 1480

Verb which became in an auxiliary in ME period.

(a)  

English during ME period went from analytic to synthetic language.

• True

• False

From the list, choose thos ones that are characteristics of ME period.

• Syntactically prepositions occasionally followed subjects

• Do is used as an auxiliary verb

• Lengthening and unshortening

• Syntactically single adjectives were placed before the noun

• Verbs were strong and weak in OE and still existed in ME.