Lecture III

What type of language was OE?

• Analytic

• Synthetic

How did OE express grammatical meanings?

• sound interchanges

• grammatical endings and prefixes

• sound interchanges and prefixes

• grammatical endings, sound interchanges, prefixes, and suppletive formations

TRUE or FALSE: Old English had 10 parts of speech.

• TRUE

• FALSE

How many tenses did OE verbs have?

• 2

• 3

• 6

What were the three layers of native vocabulary in Old English?

What percentage of OE vocabulary survived in Modern English?

• 3%

• 15%

• 70%

Which of the following was the principal form-building means in Old English?

• prefixes

• grammatical endings (inflections)

• suppletive formation

• sound interchanges

________ was NOT a category for OE adjectives.

• Number

• Case

• Tense

• Degrees of Comparison

OE used ___________ to express future actions.

• present-tense forms and modal phrases

• past-tense forms and modal phrases

• only modal phrases

What did Old English lack that Modern English uses to express definiteness and indefiniteness?

• Pronouns

• Articles

• Prepositions

• All of the above