Comparison between Old English and Modern English
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Comparison between Old English and Modern English
Running head: COMPARISO BETWEEN OLD ENGLISH AND MODERN ENGLISH 1
COMPARISON BETWEEN OLD ENGLISH AND MODERN ENGLISH 4
Comparison between Old English and Modern English
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Comparison between Old English and Modern English
The Old English is the language which was spoken from the beginning of the world. It has now evolved to be the modern English that is being spoken currently (Scahill, J. 2011). To differentiate between the two, we major on a lot of factors. First, we will start on the pronunciation. Old English has more alphabetical letters and consonants as compared to modern English. On the other hand, both old and modern English have different length of the long vowels, but old English has fewer vowels as compared to modern English. Modern English has some diphthongs whiles old English does not. Diphthongs are the complex vowel sounds which begin with the sound of a vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel which is in the syllable.
Secondly is the grammatical structure. Old English has two types of tenses. That is, past tense and present tense while modern English has nine tenses which include past tense, present tense and future tense among others. Also, old English has two types of verbs that are strong and weak verbs that have the same characteristics with the ones of the modern English which are irregular and regular. The strong/irregular verbs are formed by changing the middle vowel of the word. For example, run, ran, run. While the irregular verbs are formed by adding d /ed at the end of the word. Such that grunt grunted, grunted. Besides, modern English is well developed with no change of tone during pronunciation as compared to the old English. On the grammatical gender, old English is not well defined or developed while modern English is but they both have the same three types of gender; masculine, feminine and neuter.
In the case of the personal pronoun, the pronoun is fully inflected for both cases. The distinctive instances for gender, persons, and circumstances and three in number, singular, two (both) and plural (many). They are used up to date for both modern and old English since they are frequently used for specific references. Also, the defined articles of the old English are fully inflected while the ones for modern are not but the old English articles for the demonstration cases are preserved in the old English form till today.
The fourth comparison is on the sentence structure. Old English is very simple and easy to understand. The sentences formation is very simple. It does not have the subordinate clauses. On the contrary, modern English is complex, challenging and uses a lot of conjunctions, transitions and the subordinate clauses among others. Most of the modern sentences demand a lot for one to understand them fully.
Fifth is on the nouns. The modern English is not inflected, that is, the case and the number of the nouns in the sentences is well known through the position of the noun in the sentences together with its relationship with the types of the words in the sentences. On the contrary, in old English, the nouns are fully inflected. The case and the number of the nouns are known through inflections. The inflections are of two ways, one is strong or masculine, and the other is weak or feminine. Strong inflection is determined when the stem of the word ends with a consonant sound while the weak inflection ends with a vowel sound.
Lastly is the vocabulary. Old English had 90% of its vocabulary from German while modern English is composed of 85% of the words from Europe, French and Latin languages.
Reference
Scahill, J. (2011). Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto.
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