middle english grammar

prezentatsiya powerpoint middle english grammar before the norman conquest, people were taught to write a form of old english that was more archaic than the form they actually spoke. we’re in the same position today. we’re taught to write ‘write’, even though we no longer pronounce the w and the e, and our pronunciation of the i is no longer the original pronunciation, which was more like the i in ‘machine’ after the norman conquest, when french became the language of the elite, most of the literate class were no longer taught to read and write in english. although there were some attempts to continue an english literary tradition, it is clear that few writers could reproduce or even completely …

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