1. Who were the leaders of the Germanic tribes? A *Hengist and Horsa

1. Who were the leaders of the Germanic tribes?

A) *Hengist and Horsa

2. How many periods are there in English history?

2 periods

3 periods

4 periods

1 period

3. In …..the last Roman legion left the British shores .

*409 A.D

4. Which has quite a lot of literature monuments came to the end after the Norman conquest in 1066?

*Old English language

5. This interesting feature changed many of old English words on a very early stage of the language’s history

Breaking

Palatalization

i-mutation

contraction

6. What is back mutation?

.*appears before liquids and labials consonants.

7. What are the three main categories of substantive in Indo European languages?

*The number the case the gender

8. Old English….case expressed the object immidiatly affected by the action the direct object.

* Accusative

9. What are the old English auxiliary words?

*Prepositions, conjunctions, particles, interjections,

10. Old English dialects are

*West Saxon, Northumbrian, Kentish

11. Choose the old English demonstrative pronouns.

*Se,Pes

12. What is the most characteristic feature of phonetic changes in middle english?

*In definite position only long vowels appeared and in other definite position only short vowels could appear

13. West Saxon, Northumbrian, Kentish were the…..

*Old English dialects

14. Such cities as Dorchester, Winchester, Lancaster, words like camp, castra from …..

*Latin origin

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15. When did Christianity penetrate Britain?

*In the 7th century

16. Germanic tribes killed ……population.

*Celtic

17. The phonetic system of old English structure of sounds preserved in general ….. structure of sounds.

*Common Germanic

18. Who are the founders of literary English ?

* Chouser, John Gower & Wyclif .
19. What types of subordinate clauses did exist in old English complex sentences ?

* Subject clause, Object clause, Attributive clause, Adverbial clauses.

20. Shortening of some diphthongs before definite clusters is ….

*monophthongization

21. When did the normal conquest take place in England?

* in 1066 by Duke of Normandy William.

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22. What were the three main dialects in the 14th century?

* Midland, Northern, Southern

23. When did London dialect appear?

* in the 14th century

24. Who used London dialect in his literary works?

* Chaucer

25. Weakening and reducing to a neutral vowel?

* Leveling.

26. What was characteristic feature of the Middle English ?

* the change of dialects and loose of inflexion

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27. What language are these words borrowed from ?

victory, tailor, sentence, prince, noble, court, baron

* French origin.

28. Give modern English variant of these verbs : Dòn, gàn, willan.

* do, go, will.

29. In old English negation is expressed by the adverb …. In front of verb

Not

* Ne.

30. What does it mean? Gewit fram me

* Depart from me.

31. It is often used as a noun denoting the performer of an action:

* Participle

32. These verbs are divided info seven classes.

* Strong verbs

33. …..conjugated in two tenses Present & Past and three moods Indicative,

Subjunctive and Imperative.

* Old English verbs
34. –or and os+ formed the degree of comparison …. .

* Adverbs in old English

35. What were the secondary parts of the sentence in old English?

* the object, the attribute, the opposition, the adverbial, modifier, the direct address, the parenthesis.

36. What kind of pronouns are they in old English? pe , sepe

* relative pronouns

37. How many cases were in old English Numeral ?

* 4 cases.

38. What were the four cases of declension of numerals ?

*nominative, genitive, dative, accusative.

39. The middle English period began with the …. .

* Normal conquest

40. What were the phonetic laws of old English ?

* Grimms law & Verners law

41. What was the most popular book which translated into Old English ?
* the Bible.

42. What were the Old English velar consonants?

* c[ k ] , g , h

43. What were the Old English liquid consonants ?

H ,k

r , l

t,g

d,h

44. What were the Old English dental consonants ?

* d , t , s , p

45. What were the Old English Labial consonants ?

* p , b , f , v

46. What was the most problematic case in Old English Substantive?

* instrumental case
47. …. expresses the object towards the action is directed.

*Dative case

48. …. expresses the possessive meaning.

* Genitive case

49. How many genders were in Old English numerals ?

*3 genders mascula, neutra, femina.

50. In Old English ordinal numerals were used with the …..

* demonstrative pronouns.

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51. Who translated the Bible into Old English?

* Wyclif

52. Which dialect did pare way to the literary English language ?

*Southern

53. Since …. change of dialects took place in M.E period.

* XII century
54. What language did influence to English during M.E period?

*French

55. What parts of speech are these words in Old English: fremman, sceppan, hafen.

*The verb

56. In Old English great number of adverbs were derived from ……?

*substantives & adjectives.

57. Choose the suffixes of the degrees of compare of adverbs In Old English

*-or,- ost

58. How were the phrases In Old English?

*two member or three member

59. What were the secondary parts of the sentence In Old English ?

*object, attribute, opposition adv, mod, direct address, parenthesis

60. Choose the correct order of the declension In old English Adjective

*Nominative, genitive, dative ,accusative, instrumental

61. The three grammatic categories of old English are….

*Gender number case

62. What is consonant shift?

*Changing of consonants into long and shortness

63. Whom was stated the phenomena “the first consonant shift by?

*Danish scholar Rasmus Christian Rasle and German fairy tale collector Jacob Grimm discovered it.

64. Usually in old Germanic languages the stress falls on ……….each of the word.

*the root syllable

85. What kind of alphabet was used before Latin in Britain?

*Runic Alphabet

86. When did the West Saxon dialect dominate over the country …

*In the 9th century
87. What was the characteristic feature of the old English vowels?

*they can be either short or long

88. What is declension?

*Usage of some parts of speech in the case, gender and number

89. What was the language of Jutes?

*Kentish

90. What is the conjugation?

*Usage of the verb in the case, gender and number

91. Synchronical means………

*Studying the definite period of time.

92. Choose the correct order of the declension of pronouns in Old English

*nominative, genitive, dative, accusative

93. Diacronical means……

*Studying the historical development of the language.

94. Who wrote about ancient Teutons?
*the Greek traveler and astronomer Pytheas

95. What are the three groups of the Germanic languages?

*The East Germanic west Germanic north Germanic

96. Who were barbarians?

*They were ancient Teutons
97. Studying the historical development of the language is…

*Diachronical study

98. Usage of the verb in the case ,gender and number is….

*conjugation.

99 Studying the definite period of time is….

*Synchronical study

100. … was the language of Jutes?

*Kentish

65. Who explained the exceptions which existed in grimms law.

*The Danish scolar Carl Verner

66. In what types of old Germanic languages the consonants are lengthened.

*West Germanic languages

67. The second consonant shift took place…

*Between V and VIIth centuries A.D

68. Who are Angles?
*The tribe who inhabited in Britain
69. Who are the Goths?

*One of the Germanic tribes whose language is dead now

70. In 55th B.C the Romans under….conquered Britain.

*Julius Caesar

71. Permanent conquest began in 43 A.D under the…

*Claudius

72. In the 4th century ……superseded the Celtic dialects in townships even in country sides.

*The Latin language.

73. Celtic languages were divided into two main groups…

*Gallo Britain and Celtic

74. The Romans ruled Britain for almost four hundred years up to the …

Early 5th century

Late 5th century

End of the 5th century

In the 6th century
75. Old English period is the period of…

*Full endings

76. Old English period covers…

*700 A.D till 1100

77. Middle English period is the period of…

*Leveled endings

78. Middle English period covers….

*700 A.D till 1100
79. Modern English period is the period of…
*Lost endings
80. Early modern English period covers….

*From 1500 up to 1600

81. What is mutation?

*The complete change in vowel quality

82. What is fracture ?
*Breaking of diphthongs into short vowels
83. What is palatalization?

*The change of consonants and vowels under the influence of some initials.

84. What is lengthening?

*Doubling of consonants and vowels