First year english notes of chapter 10 'The English Language'

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    "The Enlish Language"

     (Questions and Answers)


Q:1: When was the Anglo-saxon 
         Spoken in England?
Ans: Anglo-saxon remained the language of          England from about A.D 459 to A.D 
         1150.

 Q:2: Why Anglo-saxon not like Modern Eng-
          Lish?
Ans: There were two great foreign invasion
          (One French and other one German).
          They used different languages. The                 result was that they modified old                     English considerably.
         

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