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    Early modern English saw some changes to parts of speech from older forms of English. Nouns developed irregular plural forms through vowel mutation. Shakespeare used this form of English in his plays and changed how negatives were formed, moving from "ne" to "not". Prepositions took on greater importance, like the word "about" developing from "abutan". Verbs increasingly joined the weak conjugation class or disappeared altogether as the strong class declined. Adjectives and adverbs continued comparative and superlative forms but increasingly also used "more" and "most" for comparison.

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    Early modern English saw some changes to parts of speech from older forms of English. Nouns developed irregular plural forms through vowel mutation. Shakespeare used this form of English in his plays and changed how negatives were formed, moving from "ne" to "not". Prepositions took on greater importance, like the word "about" developing from "abutan". Verbs increasingly joined the weak conjugation class or disappeared altogether as the strong class declined. Adjectives and adverbs continued comparative and superlative forms but increasingly also used "more" and "most" for comparison.

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    Early modern English saw some changes to parts of speech from older forms of English. Nouns developed irregular plural forms through vowel mutation. Shakespeare used this form of English in his plays and changed how negatives were formed, moving from "ne" to "not". Prepositions took on greater importance, like the word "about" developing from "abutan". Verbs increasingly joined the weak conjugation class or disappeared altogether as the strong class declined. Adjectives and adverbs continued comparative and superlative forms but increasingly also used "more" and "most" for comparison.

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    Early modern english

    Nouns
    An irregular plurals in the
    Early Modern English
    is the handful of mutate-
    vowel plurals;

    William Shakespeare
    (1564-1616) is without a doubt one of the grea
    writers of the English language.
    Shakespeare used it in his plays. Negatives w
    no longer marked with the older ‘ne’ but inste
    by ‘not’.

    Preposition
    Prepositions acquired a somewhat greater
    importance than they had had in Old English.
    Even in Old English times, on was sometimes
    reduced in compound words like abutan
    (now about)

    Verbs
    Throughout the history of English, the
    strong verbs-always a minority-have
    fought a losing battle, having either
    joined the ranks
    of the weak verbs or been lost
    altogether.

    Adverb / Adjective
    Adjectives and adverbs continued to form
    comparatives with -er and superlatives with
    -est, but increasingly they used analytical
    comparison with mo(e) or more and with
    most,
    which had occurred as early as Old English
    times.

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