Маъсул муҳаррир: Филология фанлари доктори, профессор: Г. Х. Боқиева Тақризчилар

Practice Assignment
1. Give the forms of the plural of the following ME words:
man, mous, goos, foot, tooth.

2. Classify the nouns in the plural given below into the group including words with the old inflection of the plural and the group of nouns, the plural inflection of which is a new formation:

applen, sunnen, brothren, children, lamber, vers, eyes, oxen, bokes, horsen, hundes, wordes, tides, earen, winter, scipen, shep, brethren, deden, chyrchen, lawes, honden, wummen, spechen, yer.

3. Determine the number and case of the underlined pronouns in the following word combinations:

a) ... me thincth ic lede;
b) that ye mowen nou yhere;
c) that Crist us shilde alle fro helle;
d) we eow wulleth;
e) and geven hem mine kinetheode;
f) ... that ich you wile telle;
g) at the beginning of ure tale;
h) that we moten comen him to...;
i) ful michel thank kan i you...;
j) thei hidden hem alle and helden hem.

4. Determine the peculiarities of the meaning and usage of the ME verb shall in the following sentences:

1) Nay, he schall nat that don (No, he shall not do that).
2) ... heer schall he nat preche (he must not preech here).

5. Study the analytical Perfect forms. Explain the reason for the use of the verbs ben and haven. Compare them with the Perfect forms in ModE:

1) we ben entered in-to shippes bord...
2) every man hath told his tale.
3) he hadde half his cours y-seyled.
4) he hadde him knowe yeer by yeer.
5) Thys day is the messenger gon to the toun.


SEMINAR 10


Middle English Syntax

Questions

1. The phrase.
2. The simple sentence. Means of syntactic connection.
3. Parts of the sentence.
4. Word order in middle English.
5. The compound sentence.
6. The complex sentence.