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WorksheetsModern English Period
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is the timeline of Modern English period?
1600 to the present
1200 to 1500
1500 to the present
1100 to the present
What were the major factors which influenced this period?
Renaissance scholarship,
The religious controversies of the Reformation,
Translations of the Bible,
Changes in the pronunciation of vowels (the Great Vowel Shift)
Give an example for long vowels that are pronounced with a greater elevation of the tongue
Fet > feet
fod > food
fame. > fame.
Find >find
What is the linguistic importance of the Great Vowel Shift?
Loss of r in final position and before consonants, as in car, heart
Loss of t, especially between consonants as in castle, whistle
it accounts for the great disparity between spelling and pronunciation in English
Loss of /k, g,w/ in combinations such as gn, wr. kn
What are some of the features of inkhorn terms?
an affectedly learned and obscure borrowing from another language, esp Greek or Latin
they were deliberately introduced into the language, largely by scholars, and were deemed by some to be “pretentious” or “artificial”
thousands of inkhorn terms that were introduced during the period have since fallen out of fashion
drastically increased the lexicon of English
The adjectives royal, regal, kingly are.......
Synonyms
French words
Latin words
English words
If feminine : woman, then nasal: (a)
Give examples for words that express disapproval of the Protestants against the Catholics.
Papal
Reprobate
Papistical
Monkish
Printing was introduced to England in the year.........................
1476
1576
1474
1574
Which is not an effect of printing on the English language?
Established a standard variety of anguage
gave currency to new coinages
circulation of oral communication
fixed spelling
