§Extra
final –e (vowel) or you could say appended –e or inflected vowel
§Doubling
(vppon,
natural, seurall) and
Single consonants (maners)
§Omission
of medial e: wherby, somtimes
§Omission
of final e: diuers
§Interchange:
I/Y or U/V for example
§Inconsistencies
or idiosyncratic spelling
§Phonetic
spelling
§Loan
Words : French/Latin or borrowing (like the text A in travel writing example)
Key Words in the Question
§In
each of the questions there are two key words.
These are:
§Q1:
word class and archaic spelling pattern (SPELLING)
§Q2:
word class and variation. In this
question you can also make reference to language change concepts like;
reference to 1755 dictionary, spelling inconsistency and standardisation
(SPELLING & PUNCTUATION)
§Q3:
Form (word class with detail – third person present tense inflection) and
archaic grammatical feature (GRAMMAR)
Question 4
Grammatical Structure & Punctuation
Grammatical Structure & Punctuation
§You will not score any marks for comments
on archaic spelling and lexis
§Here,
you need to simply name/state the grammatical structure and/or punctuation
feature and give an EXAMPLE
§You
should revise by studying the practice questions we’ve completed and corrected
§The
next slides will give you reminders of what you could select:
Grammar
§Inversion
(word order). Explain which words are
‘inverted.’ Example, “Here sheweth the man…” (Inversion of auxiliary and
subject)
§Position
of adverbs (word order). Example, “He
presently giueth it
are maruelously
delighted.” (adverb before lexical verb)
§Negation
(verb phrase). Example, “Some planet
that loves not.” (Negator
placed after lexical verb)
§Multiclausal
(sentence type). Example, “Here God sheweth, that it is…that honoureth
thee, and that it is…that taken thee.” (All cluases begin with relative pronoun or
connective)
PUNCTUATION
§NOTE
FROM THE EXAMINER: Your answer must move
beyond observation. Appropriate
terminology should be selected to describe and explain usage.
§
§Position
of full stops, commas, colons and semi-colons where it is different from PDE
usage
§Random
capitalisation; lack of sentence initial capitalisation
§Absence/presence
of possessive apostrophes (or inconsistencies)
§The
frequency of commas
§Emergence
of semi-colons (where today we’d use a full stop)
§Absence/presence
of question marks for direct speech
§Use
of hyphens to create compounds (Hyphenated compounds)
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