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What are the three main stages of English language?
Old Modern, Middle, Late Modern
Old, Middle, Modern
Germanic, Middle, Modern
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The word 'Apple' used to mean any kind of fruit. It has undergone...
Narrowing
Shift
Broadening
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When did William Caxton bring the printing press to England?
1746
1476
647
1647
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What is a scriptorium?
Where people wrote scripts for books - often taking years
A place where people are inspired to write plays
Where Danny from the script writes his songs
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A suffix is...
A morpheme at the beginning of a word.
A morpheme placed at the end of a word.
A bound morpheme.
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Lexicographers began 'attempting' to standardise the English language in...
1950
<p>500AD</p>
<p>At the end of the early modern period</p>
1755
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The Education Act on 1867 was important because...
Longer holidays!
It encouraged people to become teachers
<p>Compulsory schooling = universal literacy </p>
Kids could learn to not
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The Great Vowel Shift was...
<p>Vowels being invented</p>
Vowels becoming longer
<p>The change of vowels into consonants</p>
<p>Long vowel sounds becoming shorter</p>
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The word 'mug' used to just mean a utensil. Now it means more, meaning it has undergone...
Broadening
Specialisation
Pejoration
Diachronic
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<p>Why is the Renaissance period so important? </p>
New inventions, new words and new influences
New Look
New stuff, new animals, new everything
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What letters are interchangeable?
i + y, u + v
t + s, eth + th
l + p, m + y
e + s
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What is the name of early magical writing, used by Tolkien?
Hieroglyphics
Runes
Scrawls
Hanji
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The purpose of original texts were..
<p>Manuals, instructions, leaflets</p>
Religious, recipes, text books
<p>Religious, stories, scripts </p>
Religious, legal and stories/events
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Which is the earliest English tribe?
Celts
Cornish
Kentonians
Scots
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Most English words come from...
Old Norse
Latin and French
Greek and Germanic
Dutch and Latin
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Who brought the Printing Press to England?
William Caxton
William Forde
Will.I.AM.
Prince William
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Syntax is...
The order of words in a sentence.
Words joined together in a paragraph.
The placcement of words in a text.
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The name of the language brought over by tribes is...
German
Latin
Danish
Germanic
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1066 is linked to...
End of the world
End of Anglo Saxon period
Battle of Hastings
Beginning of Latin speech
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What events took place in Early Modern English?
GVS, JLS, 1D
GVS, French King, Chaucer's writings
GVS, Printing Press, people became more literate
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Two words that are joined together is a... (e.g. laptop)
Blend
Compound
Coinage
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True or False? Late Modern period is from 1800 - modern day.
False
True
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French, Spanish and Italian are ................ languages
Romantic
Slavic
Norse
Western
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What were the names of the 3 tribes that invaded England?
Celts, Fresians, Danes
Saxons, Fresians, Italians
Angles, Scots, Celts
Angles, Saxons, Jutes
