The Evolution of English: From Old Tongues to Shake-speare’s Wit

Question 1

The Canterbury Tales was written in this period.

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Middle English

Question 2

Germanic settlers influenced this period after Roman Britain fell.

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Old English

Question 3

Writers debated whether English was an elegant language.

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Early Modern English

Question 4

Many words in law, government, and religion came from French and Latin.

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Middle English

Question 5

After this period, even scientific texts were written in English instead of Latin.

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Early Modern English

Question 6

Beowulf was written in this highly inflected language.

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Old English

Question 7

Most surviving texts from this period were written by the Church.

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Old English

Question 8

English lost many inflections and relied more on word order.

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Middle English

Question 9

English vocabulary expanded with debates on new words.

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Early Modern English

Question 10

The Norman Conquest made French the language of the elite in England.

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Middle English

Question 11

Shakespeare wrote his plays and sonnets during this period.

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Early Modern English

Question 12

This period had complex inflections for nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

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Old English

Question 13

The printing press introduced by William Caxton helped standardize English.

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Early Modern English

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