Old English (450-1100 AD): There were many inflections., There were more personal pronouns, Nouns had three genders, and the adjectives and articles changed with the gender of the noun, All the letters in a word were pronounced, The vocabulary was mainly Germanic., Many words from Old Norse entered English., Beowulf was written.  , Early and Late Middle English (1100-1500): William the conqueror invaded and conquered England, SVO word order became predominant., They started to use prepositions such as in with, by instead of noun endings., Latin words from books about law, medicine, science, literature and Christianity entered English, Many sounds changed or disappeared, Tenses with the verbs have, be, shall and will developed, Early and Late Modern English (1500-1800): They used verbs as nouns and nouns as verbs, Put words together to create nouns and added suffixes., Shakespeare enriched the language with his plays and poems, The Great Vowel Shift, The /t/ and /d/ sounds disappear in some words. , People became creative with the language.,

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