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    Old English grammar had nominal categories expressed through inflectional endings. Nouns declined based on case and either a strong or weak declension. Verbs conjugated by tense, mood, and were either strong or weak classes. Adjectives followed nominal categories and pronouns declined through case. Word order was relatively free and syntax relied on morphology.

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    Old English grammar had nominal categories expressed through inflectional endings. Nouns declined based on case and either a strong or weak declension. Verbs conjugated by tense, mood, and were either strong or weak classes. Adjectives followed nominal categories and pronouns declined through case. Word order was relatively free and syntax relied on morphology.

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    Old English grammar had nominal categories expressed through inflectional endings. Nouns declined based on case and either a strong or weak declension. Verbs conjugated by tense, mood, and were either strong or weak classes. Adjectives followed nominal categories and pronouns declined through case. Word order was relatively free and syntax relied on morphology.

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    Test 3A.

    OE Grammar

    1. Grammatical endings were the principal


    form-building means in OE.
    2. There were only 3 nominal grammatical
    categories in OE.
    3. Verbal categories proper in OE were Tense
    and Mood.
    4. Noun in OE possessed a 4-case system of
    declension.
    5. The Dative case was the main one in OE to
    be used with prepositions.
    6. There was only one declension of nouns in
    OE.
    7. Declension of nouns with vocalic stems in
    OE is known as the strong declension.
    8. Declension of nouns with consonantal stems
    in OE is known as the weak declension.
    9. In Proto-Germanic the word consisted of 2
    components.
    10. Strong verbs were divided into 7 classes in
    OE
    11. Weak verbs were divided into 5 classes in
    OE.
    12. The OE Infinitive had a reduced case-
    system.
    13. The main difference between strong and
    weak verbs in OT lay in the means of
    forming principal parts, or stems of the verb.
    14. There were 3 tenses in OE.
    15. There were 3 moods in OE.
    16. OE Adjective was characterized according
    to 5 Nominal grammatical categories.
    17. OE didn’t possess the class of demonstrative
    pronouns.
    18. OE Adjective didn’t form the degrees of
    comparison in a suppletive way at all.
    19. Personal pronouns had a 5-case system of
    declension.
    20. The syntactic structure of Old English was
    determined by the nature of the OE
    morphology and the relations between the
    spoken and the written forms of the
    language.
    21. Old English was largely an analytical
    language and didn’t possess a system of
    grammatical forms which indicated the
    connection between words.
    22. There were no compound and complex
    sentences in OE.
    23. Word order in Old English was relatively
    free.
    24. One of the conspicuous features of the Old
    English syntax was multiple negations
    within a single sentence or clause.
    25. The English language began to develop in
    the 5th century BC.

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