EN372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Continuous And Progressive Aspects, Periphrasis, Exeter Book
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The grammar of old english and the seafarer. 12 q / 15 marks: 2 ch. 5, 3 ch. 6, 5. Mainly short answer and a couple of t/f or mc. Demonstrative: this/that (singular) and these/those (plural, demonstrate a distance from the speaker from their perspective, in oe they indicate person, number, gender, and case. Articles: definite- inflected in oe (the book, indefinite (a/an book) Pronouns: he/his, i/we/our: singular, dual, and plural, grammatical (oe) vs biological gender, indicate person and case. Oe forms of pronouns: masculine he, heo (lost), she (on, plural hira, him. Interrogative pronouns: words that ask questions (what, who, when, how, why, whom, whose) in oe (hwa = who) What is an adjectives- a descriptive word that names an attribute of a noun, it qualifies the noun. + noun = weak; to good kings = adjective + noun. = strong; that good king = modifier + adj. + nous = weak; good king = adj.
