Test 3A.

OE Grammar

1. Grammatical endings were the principal

form-building means in OE.
2. There were only 3 nominal grammatical
categories in OE.
3. Verbal categories proper in OE were Tense
and Mood.
4. Noun in OE possessed a 4-case system of
declension.
5. The Dative case was the main one in OE to
be used with prepositions.
6. There was only one declension of nouns in
OE.
7. Declension of nouns with vocalic stems in
OE is known as the strong declension.
8. Declension of nouns with consonantal stems
in OE is known as the weak declension.
9. In Proto-Germanic the word consisted of 2
components.
10. Strong verbs were divided into 7 classes in
OE
11. Weak verbs were divided into 5 classes in
OE.
12. The OE Infinitive had a reduced case-
system.
13. The main difference between strong and
weak verbs in OT lay in the means of
forming principal parts, or stems of the verb.
14. There were 3 tenses in OE.
15. There were 3 moods in OE.
16. OE Adjective was characterized according
to 5 Nominal grammatical categories.
17. OE didn’t possess the class of demonstrative
pronouns.
18. OE Adjective didn’t form the degrees of
comparison in a suppletive way at all.
19. Personal pronouns had a 5-case system of
declension.
20. The syntactic structure of Old English was
determined by the nature of the OE
morphology and the relations between the
spoken and the written forms of the
language.
21. Old English was largely an analytical
language and didn’t possess a system of
grammatical forms which indicated the
connection between words.
22. There were no compound and complex
sentences in OE.
23. Word order in Old English was relatively
free.
24. One of the conspicuous features of the Old
English syntax was multiple negations
within a single sentence or clause.
25. The English language began to develop in
the 5th century BC.