ENGLISH LANGUAGE EVOLUTION

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Question 6

Romans

Normans

Vikings (or Danes)

Old norse

Celts

Angles, Saxons, Jutes

Anglo-Saxon

Latin

French

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-Last year/month/week,…

• Yesterday
• The day before yesterday.
• A year/month/week ago.
• Last night.
• In 1547
• ….

• Something happened in the past; a past time which has nothing to do with present.

• We focus on when the action or the event happened. You’ll always (or almost always) find adverbs of past time.

Three forms:

• Affirmative:

- Regular verbs - Irregular verbs

• Negative

• Question

PAST SIMPLE

Subj + verb + compl

Spelling variations:

• Love loved
• Travel travelled
• Stop stopped
• Try tried

We just add –ed to the main verb:

• Help helped
• Join joined
• Own owned
• Perform performed
• Stay stayed ma:

pay paid

-They protected them from the barbarian Saxon tribes. - (…) these tribes lived in Britain

Regular Verbs

AFFIRMATIVE FORM

Paradigms are the patterns of irregular verbs. They can't follow a rule, so you have to learn them by heart.

Paradigms

• Write wrote
• Build built
• Buy bought
• Eat ate
• Sing sang

• the Roman empire began to crumble.
• As Saxons fell in love with their cute Danish neighbours

Irregular Verbs

• Did they protect them from…?
• Did the Roman empire begin to crumble?

- They protected them from….

- The Roman empire began to crumble.

DID + SUBJ + VERB (BASE)

QUESTION FORM

• They didn’t protect them from….
• The Roman empire didn’t begin to crumble.

- They protected them from….

- The Roman empire began to crumble.

SUBJ + DIDN’T + VERB (BASE) DID + NOT

NEGATIVE FORM

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How many English words do you use in your everyday talk?