Раздел 5

1. The Germanic tribes which invaded the British Isles in 449 were:

1. the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes;

2.The number of kingdoms in Old English Period was:

1. 7;

3.Levelling of unstressed endings took place in:

1. Middle English Period;

4.NOUNS in Old English had the categories of:

1. number, gender and case;

5. Kennings are:

1. poetic metaphors.

6. The number of stems of Old English Noun was:

1. 9;

7. Modern Modal Verbs originated from:

1. Preterit-Present Verbs.

8. The number of tenses in Old English was:

1. 2;

9. Dual number was observed in Old English:

1. Pronouns;

10. What is true:

1. Any Adjective could have Weak and Strong declension;

11. Beowulf is:

1. a hero;

12. King who had the name the Great was:

1. Alfred.

13. The number of dialects in Old English Period was:

b) 7;

14. The number of dialects in Middle English Period was:

a) 3;

15. Old English is the period of:

1. full endings;

16. Middle English period began in:

1. 1066;

17. The territory of the Dane law was in:

1. the North;

18. The main sources of borrowings in Middle English:

1. Latin and French;

19. Article appeared in:

1. Middle English;

20. Gerund appeared in:

Middle English;

21. Great Vowel Shift changed:

1. long vowels;

22. Strong Verbs historically developed mostly into:

Irregular Verbs;

23. Weak Verbs historically developed mostly into:

1. Regular Verbs;

24. Preterit-Present Verbs historically developed mostly into:

1. Modals;

25. The number of Non-Finite forms in Old English was

a) 3;

26. Weak Verbs formed their past tense by means of:

1. dental suffix;

27. Strong Verbs formed their past tense by means of:

1. Ablaut;

28. Preterit-present Verbs formed their past tense by means of:

1. dental suffix;

29. Preterit-present Verbs formed their Present tense by means of:

1. Ablaut;

30. The suffix of adverb in Old English was:

b) – e;

31. The Word Order in Old English was:

1. free.

32. The OE word GODHUS is formed by means of:

1. stem composition.

33. The word THIRD developed from THREE due to:

metathesis;

34. The process of formation of a short diphthong from a simple short vowel in OE when it is followed by a specific consonant cluster is known as:

1. fracture.

35. Analytical forms of the verb appeared in:

1. Middle English;

36. The names of days of the week were borrowed from:

d) Latin.

37. Which morphological category(ies) of noun was preserved in Middle English:

d) number and case.

38. The apostrophe as a sign denoting the possessive case of a noun appeared about :

1. 1680;

39. Most Scandinavian borrowed Verbs in Middle English are conjugated according to the:

1. weak type;

40. Nearly all OE phonetic changes were due to the common principle of

1. assimilation;

41. The Germanic tribes invaded the British Isles in:

1. 449 AD;

42. Great Vowel Shift took place in:

1. Early New English Period;

43. Old English Pronouns had :

1. 3

44. Middle English is the period of:

1. levelled endings;

45. Future Tense appeared in:

1. Middle English;