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    The Middle English period lasted from the 11th to 15th centuries and was influenced by French. Geoffrey Chaucer was an important poet. Sentence structure was similar to modern English. There were five dialects. The Modern English period began in the 15th century and was characterized by William Shakespeare. English developed without outside influence and has many dialects. Grammatical features changed between the periods as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech lost inflections over time.

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    The Middle English period lasted from the 11th to 15th centuries and was influenced by French. Geoffrey Chaucer was an important poet. Sentence structure was similar to modern English. There were five dialects. The Modern English period began in the 15th century and was characterized by William Shakespeare. English developed without outside influence and has many dialects. Grammatical features changed between the periods as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech lost inflections over time.

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    DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MIDDLE AND MODERN ENGLISH

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    The Middle English period lasted from the 11th to 15th centuries and was influenced by French. Geoffrey Chaucer was an important poet. Sentence structure was similar to modern English. There were five dialects. The Modern English period began in the 15th century and was characterized by William Shakespeare. English developed without outside influence and has many dialects. Grammatical features changed between the periods as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech lost inflections over time.

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    Differences Between Middle and Modern English

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    The Middle English period lasted from the 11th to 15th centuries and was influenced by French. Geoffrey Chaucer was an important poet. Sentence structure was similar to modern English. There were five dialects. The Modern English period began in the 15th century and was characterized by William Shakespeare. English developed without outside influence and has many dialects. Grammatical features changed between the periods as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech lost inflections over time.

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    MIDDLE ENGLISH MODERN ENGLISH

    th th
    The time period was 11 century to 15 century. Started in 15th century (around 1580) till the present
    day
    The greatest English poet of the Middle Ages was The most important poet of the Modern English was
    Geoffrey Chaucer. William Shakespeare.
    Has a French influence Develop a language of its own without any influence.
    The sentence structure was as we know it now: subject Has the same sentence structure as the middle
    – verb – object. English.
    Was spoken in the Norman England it gradually ended Spoken since great vowel shift in England
    the physics as a fighting language.
    Has five dialects in different regions, They were Has many dialects so it is referred to as Anglosphere
    known as Northern, Southern, East Midland, West which means the countries where the English is the
    Midland and Kentish . Printing began in English main native language and it is considered
    language become more standardized. collectively.
    GRAMMATICAL FEATURES: GRAMMATICAL FEATURES:

    NOUNS: It lost the case suffixes at the end of the NOUNS: Inflections retain those marking plural and
    noun. Generalize plural become –s but it still complete possessive singular.
    with –n.
    VERBS: Use of English irregular verbs has different
    VERBS: Third- person singular and plural were forms, for example: Take – took – taken. They do
    marked with – (e)th but singular also completed with – support for the increase in multi-word verbs and
    (e)s. another development is the development of auxiliary
    verbs.
    ADJECTIVES: Here the adjective lost agreement
    with a noun but the weak ending –e remain. ADJECTIVES: Adjectives lost all ending except for
    in comparative and superlative form.
    PRONOUNS: The dual number disappeared in
    pronouns. Dative and accusative become object forms PRONOUNS: Pronouns loss of distinction between
    of pronouns. whom and who, the placement of frequency adverbs
    before auxiliary verbs.
    SYNTAX: Was a stricter more preposition used and
    new compound tenses used. SYNTAX: Use of auxiliary verbs becomes
    mandatory in interrogative sentences. Less rather
    ADVERBS: Adverbs ending in –ie become –ly. than fewer is used for the countable nouns.

    ADVERBS: Adverbs ending in –ly which is form by


    adding –ly to adjective.
    PRONUNCIATION: Loss of” H” in the cluster, for PRONUNCIATION: Vowel shift changed the
    example: hnutu to hut. pronunciation of all vowels.

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