Early modern English (1500-1800)

Standard English

- Variety without a home, anyone can speak it no matter where they live
- More obvious in writing
- Can be spoken with any accent
- Associated with the educated, the wealthy, those with power such as governments,
judiciary, etc
- Normative-it has conventions and rules
- Notional-an idea or capacity
- Used as a world language intended for international communication
- Used as a benchmark
- Artificially created over many years by different groups of people not academics

Q1) I can do that quicklier than you.

Q2) I ain’t never done nothin’ like that.

Q3) How much Easter eggs do you have?

Q4) That’s’ the swing we swinged on.

1) I can do that quicker than you.

2) I have never done anything like that.
3) How many Easter eggs do you have?
4) That’s the swing we swung on.