Early Modern English features
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- Created on: 11-06-16 14:42
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- Early Modern English 15th-17th century
- Printing press: William Caxton 1476
- Used double negatives and comparatives
- Showed more complex sentence structures
- Relied on conjunctions e.g. then/and
- Showed more complex sentence structures
- Mulcaster - first book and spellings 1582
- 'U' + 'Y' still used interchangeably
- Great Vowel Shift - King James I Bible - Renaissance
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