History of English language

Printing press was invented in…

• Modern English

• Late Middle English

• Early Middle English

• Postmodernism and Contemporary

• The greatest poem of Old English was.., an epic of the 7th or 8th c.

• War of the worlds

• A passage to India

• • Beowulf

• Heart of darkness

The … period was much influenced by contemporary French literature.

• Romanticism

• Edwardian

• Victorian

• Neoclassical

Geoffrey Chaucer was…

• National poet of England

• The father of English language

• The first novelist

• The poet was used many words in his works

• In … period artists and writers turned from the religious life to humanist life.

• 

• The Renaissance

• The Neoclassical

• The Victorian

• Modernism

Proto-Indo-European language divided into … groups.

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 2

• The first pronouncing dictionary was written by…

• John Walker

• Geoffry Chaucer

• W.Shakespeare

• Thomas Sheridan

• •Vowels were pronounced longer;

• •The letters j, q, and v were never used in writing even though the sounds were;

• •Primarily of German and Latin influence

• •Grammatical Gender;

• •Writing was mostly religious;

• All grammatical categories were in …. Period.

• Late Middle English

• Modernism

• Old English

• Romanticism

Borrowings from contemparary

languages: The influx of French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, German, Portuguese

and Russian words. Happened in … period.

• Modern English

• Romanticism

• Edwardian

• Neoclassical

Find the information about the General dictationaries.

• Dictationaries of synonyms

• Etymological dictationaries

• Explanatory dictionaries

  and parallel or translation

• Pronouncing dictationaries and parallel or translation