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HISTORY_OE, ME

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    The game is aimed to revise information on introduction to the course, Old English, and Middle English
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  • Who is the author of "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People"?
    Bede the Venerable
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  • When was the Grimm's law formulated?
    1822
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  • What are the three main Germanic tribes who invaded Britain in V century AD?
    Jutes, Angles, Saxons
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  • What was the main difference between the declension types of nouns and adjectives in Old English?
    Nouns - constant declension type, adjectives - changeable category
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  • What is the difference between Imperative Mood in Old English and in Modern English?
    OE - 2 imperative forms (Singular & Plural / Polite), Modern English - 1 imperative form
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  • Celtic Borrowings referred mostly to ...
    place names
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  • Past Tense of the weak Old English verbs was formed with the help of suffixes ...
    -ode, -ede, -de
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  • A type of phonemes which has undergone the most significant changes since the Old English period is ...
    long vowels
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  • In ... languages, a word itself is changed to produce a grammatical form or to show grammatical relations between words
    synthetical
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  • A historical treatise a part of which was based on "The Ecclesiastical History of the English People" is ...
    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
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  • The historical event of the Old English period which resulted in changing the structure of the English language is  ...
    Scandinavian invasion
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  • Latin borrowings of the Zero period appeared in the English language due to ...
    contacts of Romans and Germanic tribes on the continent
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  • A sign which was used in Old English to indicate the length of the vowel is called ...
    Macron
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  • The Old English Runic alphabet is called ...
    Futhorc
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  • ... used to have three numbers in the Old English period.
    Personal pronouns
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  • ... dialect was spoken by Jutes.
    Kentish
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