WorksheetsMKP History of Language
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Conventionally Middle English lasts from ...
5-10c
10-15c
15-18c
Synthetic English became analytic one during
5-10c
16-19c
11-15c
... engaged in conflict with King of England, over power and money.
Thomas Becket
Henry II
Thomas Hardy
The Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English records around ... different spellings for word 'through'.
500
300
100
... syntax is characterised by double negation.
Modern English
Middle English
Old English
in OE ... were usually formed by inverting subject and finite verb.
interrogative sentences
negative sentences
affirmative sentences
The first and foremost difference between OE and ModE syntax is ...
strong and weak verbs
free word order
usage of kennings
Extracts from ... were carved in runes on Ruthwell Cross.
Seafarer
Dream of the Rood
Beowulf
Kennings are heavily formulaic ... used in OE literature
metaphors
metonymys
metathesis
Alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses ... as the principal ornamental device to help indicate the underlying metrical structure
metathesis
assonance
alliteration
... is a translation and adaptation of Latin history known as Seven Books of History against Pagans, written by Spanish cleric Paulus Orosius at the prompting of Saint Augustine after the sack of Rome in 410.
Dream of the Rood
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
World History
Urheimat
cognates
homeland
Germany
Australopithecus Lucy is
more than 3 million years old
less than 3 million years old
... William Jones (1746 –1794) was the first who compared Sanskrit with other languages.
Welsh philologist
Scottish philologist
English philologist
speakers of PIE language
were travellers
were warriors
were nomadic pastoralists
umlaut
vowel change in root of a word
consonant change in root of a word
Gothic, Vandalic, Burgundian languages are
West Germanic
East Germanic
North Germanic
Which verbs of Germanic languages changed root vowel
weak
strong
neutral
... classes of old English strong verbs come from PGLs and can be divided into classes according to vowels changes in the roots.
5
6
7
Definite article sē comes in ... different forms depending on case, gender, and number.
7
9
11
OE Verbs have to agree with ... in number and person.
SUBJECT
PREDICATE
OBJECT
Weak verbs of OE are divided into ... major classes.
9
3
5
... is a sound change that converts voiced consonant /z/, /d/, /l/, or /n/) to /r/.
LOSS OF CONSONANTS
RHOTACISM
LOSS OF VOWELS
Dominant OE dialect was ...
East-Saxon
West-Saxon
Northumbrian
Progressive forms of verb (I am going) and range of auxiliary verbs (I have seen, I didn’t go) came into use in ...
Middle English
Old English
Modern English
