Middle English after the Normans

During Norman Rule,

• English had official status

• English had regulation

• English became the third language

• English was a written language

What is creole/patois?

• A simple mixed language with simple words and rules

• A complex language

• A language with complex grammar

• None of the options.

Which of the following is not a middle English dialect?

• Northern

• Midlands

• Kentish

• Mercian

During middle English, English speakers

• could understand all the dialects

• could not understand dialect that are far away

• could not understand a dialect which is from 100 miles away

• could not understand a dialect which is from 50 miles away

In middle English, books were

• cheap and printed

• cheap and hand written

• expensive and printed

• expensive and hand written

Which of the following had more commercial and political power?

• Wessex

• Mercia

• London

• Kent

Which of the dialects was being disapproved-

• London

• Kent

• East Midlands

• None

Chaucer's English is

• Unrecognizable and difficult

• Easy and Recognizable

• Recognizable and difficult

• None

Which of the following is false regarding to middle English?

• It lost grammatical complexity

• It lost suffixes

• Noun genders were gone

• Inflection was promoted

Sub+verb+object became the norm because

• The loss of complexity

• The loss of suffixes

• The loss of preposition

• The loss of inflection