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Worksheetsтіл тарихы 31-63
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
Find the words connected with organization of the state:
crown, throne, king
law, court, prison
king, parliament, crown, state
sword, army, battle
church, bishop, monk
Find the words connected with life of the royal court:
village, field, plough
court, chamberlain, page, noble
monk, abbey, mass
market, trade, coin
guild, craftsman
Which were not Norman-French borrowings into English:
court, judge, prison
army, battle, soldier
house, bread, wife
crown, noble, duke
government, state
Latin was finally replaced by English in the church services in:
12th century
16th century
11th century
14th century
18th century
Which of the given OE records was inscribed in runic alphabet:
Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Ruthwell Cross
The Canterbury Tales
Ormulum
The transition s → z → r like in pater → fader is interpreted by:
umlaut
assimilation
rhotacism
breaking
mutation
The neutral vowel [ə] in the dental suffix -ed was indicated in the XVIII–XIX c. spelling as:
-ad
-ud
-ed
-id
-od
The OE sound [f] in the intervocalic position was read as:
[f]
[v]
[b]
[θ]
[s]
The ______ dialect laid the foundation of the national language:
Kentish
Northumbrian
Mercian
London
West Saxon
The capital of Wessex was:
London
Canterbury
York
Winchester
Oxford
The significant lexicographer of the XVIII c. who published in 1755 “A Dictionary of the English Language” was:
Noah Webster
Samuel Pepys
Samuel Johnson
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
What numbers did exist in ME period?
singular only
singular, plural, dual
singular and plural
plural only
collective
What genders did exist in ME period?
masculine only
masculine and feminine
natural gender only
grammatical gender
neuter only
What cases of ME noun did exist in ME period?
nominative, genitive, dative, accusative
instrumental and locative
common and possessive
no cases
nominative only
The OE vowels of case endings were weakened to:
[a]
[o]
[ə]
[i]
[u]
Both Genitive singular -es and Nominative plural -as became ___ in ME:
-en
-um
-es
-a
-is
Genitive plural -ena became:
-an
-es
zero ending
-um
-en
Dative plural -um became:
-en
-e
-es
zero
-a
What was closely connected with the loss of grammatical gender in nouns?
vowel harmony
strong verbs
phonetic reduction of endings
borrowing
word order
When did grammatical gender disappear in all dialects?
OE period
Early ME
Late ME
Early NE
XVIII century
Natural gender substituted:
number
case
grammatical gender
tense
declension
The ending of the plural became:
-en
-um
-s
-a
zero
Personal pronoun ure meant:
I
you
our
your
their
Personal pronoun ure aller meant:
their
of us all
your
his
mine
When did ye, you come into use?
OE period
Early ME
13–14th centuries
17th century
19th century
Possessive pronouns derived from:
adjectives
numerals
genitive case forms
prepositions
particles
The forms my, thy in early OE were:
adjectives
nouns
unstressed variants of mine, thine
particles
adverbs
ours, yours, hers, theirs are the forms of:
personal pronouns
demonstrative pronouns
absolute possessive pronouns
reflexive pronouns
relative pronouns
When did new forms of reflexive pronouns begin to appear?
OE period
ME period
Early NE
18th century
20th century
What kind of reflexive pronouns did come into use in the 14–15th centuries?
simple pronouns
possessive forms
self-pronouns
demonstratives
articles
The -s plural themselves appeared about:
OE period
12th century
14th century
16th century
18th century
The adjective ending of both declensions and all genders had been reduced to:
-en
-um
-e
zero
-es
In ME the endings of comparison were:
-ra, -ost
-re, -est
-er, -est
-more, -most
zero
