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Question 27
Appeared in Year: 2021
Question MCQ▾
Multiple select Question (MSQ) , carry Two mark each (no negative marks) .
Analyze the following Shakespearean sentences, and observe the differences between Early Modern English and Modern English – that, is, how you would say these sentences today. What can we say in precise, grammatical terms about the syntactic changes that have occurred?
Thou marvell at my words | Macbeth, Macbeth, III. ii |
Macbeth doth come | Third Witch, Macbeth, I. iii |
Wilt thou use thy wit? | Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing, V. i |
Do you fear it? | Cassius, Julius Caesar, I. ii |
Knows he not thy voice? | First Lord, all՚s Well that ends well, IV. i |
Didst thou not say he comes? | Baptista, Taming of the shrew, III. ii |
Can՚t not rule her? | Leontes, Winter՚s Tale, II. iii |
What says thou? | Olivia, Twelfth Night, III. Iv |
What dost thou say? | Othello, Othello, III. iii |
Whom overcame he? | Boyette, Loves Labors Lost, IV. i |
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
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a. | In wh- and yes-no questions the main verb can raise to Head, CP [Complementizer Phrase] . | |
b. | Auxiliary verbs could raise to T [Tense] in Early Modern English but not main verbs | |
c. | Pronominal forms are unchanged from Early Modern into Modern English | |
d. | The agreement forms of Early Modern English included a different form for 2nd person, singular subjects. |