The History of the English language

Overall, how many English speakers (native and non-native) are there in the world?

Over 2 billion

330 million

470 million

There are more native speakers of English in Canada than there are in Australia.

True

False

English is the only official language of the European Union.

True

False

Irish English is one of the major varieties of English

True

False

In which of these South American countries English is an official language?

Brazil

Argentina

Guyana

Venezuela

Proto-Indo-European is the ancient common ancestor of English and Polish

True

False

North Germanic is an ancestor of English.

True

False

What are the approximate dates between which Old English was used?

55 BC to 5th centory

1066 until the late 15th century

5th century to the late 11th century

How many tenses were there in Old English?

Which of these languages did not influence Old English?

Norman French

Latin

Old Norse

Celtic

Progressive (-ing) forms were among the new kinds of grammatical construction in Middle English.

True

False

In Middle English there were no variations in the spelling of particular words.

True

False

Which one is not true about the Great Vowel Shift?

The term was coined by the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen

It was a radical change in pronunciation

It started very gradually

One of its possible causes was social mobility after the Black Death

Long vowel sounds began to be made lower and further backward in the mouth

We would be able to understand Shakespeare's English.

True

False

The additions to English vocabulary during the Elizabethan Era were forced on the English.

True

False

Some 19th century scholars believed that in the future American English and British English would become mutually unintelligible.

True

False

What is the difference between a pidgin and a creole?

Only pidgin can be a first language

Only creole can be a first language

Only pidgin is a blend of two or more languages

When used to denote the language, "English" doesn't have the plural form.

True

False

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