When did the Middle English period begin?, After the Viking invasions, After the Norman Conquest in 1066, After the Industrial Revolution, 2. Which language strongly influenced Middle English?, Norman French, Latin, Celtic, What happened to many Old English grammatical rules?, They became more complex, They stayed the same, They disappeared, Middle English moved toward which type of structure?, Highly inflected, Simpler and more analytic, Mostly oral, How many genders did Old English nouns have?, Two, Four, Three, What happened to grammatical gender in Middle English?, It expanded, It disappeared, It changed into six genders, What kind of gender remained in Middle English?, Arbitrary gender, Natural gender, Emotional gender, Which plural ending was common in Middle English?, -um, -en, -s / -es, Which is an example of an Old English plural ending?, -tion, -ify, -as, Which plural stayed irregular in Middle English?, car → cars, man → men, book → books, How many cases did Old English have?, Four, Two, one, How many cases remained in Middle English?, four, two, three, What happened to most case endings in Middle English?, They doubled, They disappeared, They stayed the same, What happened to word order after case endings were lost?, It became freer, It became more fixedIt disappeared, It disappeared, Which word order became common in Middle English?, VSO, OVS, SVO, What happened to strong vs weak nouns in Middle English?, They became more complex, They stayed unchanged, The distinction became weak, What happened to dual pronouns (wit, git)?, They became plural pronouns, They disappeared, They changed into verbs, Which language gave English the pronouns “they, them, their”?, French, Latin, Old Norse, Why were Norse pronouns adopted?, They were shorter, They were easier to write, Old English forms sounded too similar to he, him, her, Which Old English pronoun was replaced by “she”?, heo, hera, hae.

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