QUIZ 2

Abstract

2. Describe and exemplify two morphological or syntactic ways in which the passage differs from a modern English translation. Unlike modern English, nouns are inflected for case and gender: Lïffrëa is nominative and masculine; woroldāre is accusative and feminine. In OE, word order is different from PDE. For example, the object of a preposition can immediately precede the preposition, as in Scedelandum in; the direct object can precede the verb, as in woroldāre forgeaf; etc.