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

Practice Assignment
1. Give the historical reasons of the development of the Genetive case:
1) þе kyng his land (XIII c.);
2) the king ‘is land (XV c.);
3) the king’s land (XVIII c.).

2. State the reasons of different past tense forms of some verbs in the British and American variants of ModE:

to learn (Am. learned, Br. learnt),
to smell (Am. smelled, Br. smelt),
to spell (Am. spelled, Br. spelt),
to spill (Am. spilled, Br. spilt).

3. Explain the origin of some NE non-standard verbs which have developed from the OE and ME weak verbs of Class I:

Infinitive	Past	Participle II
sell (OE sellan)	sold	sold
put (ME putten)	put	put
feed (OE fedan)	fed	fed

4. Comment on the word order in the sentences. Define their types:

1) Mother, you have my father much offended.
2) How like you this play?
3) How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
4) She should not go there.
Compare the structures of the sentences with present-day English ones.


SEMINAR 14


New English Vocabulary

Questions

1. The development of word stock in new English:
- borrowings from classical languages;
- borrowings from contemporary languages;
- word derivation (sound interchanges, word stress, affixation, conversion, back formation);
- word composition;
- semantic changes of words.
2. English outside Great Britain.
3. Spelling and pronunciation.