key terms for analysing language change in early modern texts

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  • Created on: 25-04-18 14:38
O Q N F E R V L Q R J Y C D Y P A Q E L M
M S R S T A N D A R D I D I S A T I O N Q
C D D L T J B E O O F X V I C E C J G A P
Y E B W T H I R D P E R S O N T G S O L G
U C N G V E P T J D K K A M S X C I S G Y
R C V S B I N C O N S I S T E N C Y A E H
N S P E E C H M A R K S B E V T O D N M H
M A L K P K F G S I S U G G A F I G O P S
T K Y Q G D V Q L I N G M A V T F B Y B E
O D L V N A Y F O R Y Q V P W S B L H M G
R O T H E G R E A T S H I F T V O W E L L
N N T P F J N F I R S T P E R S O N R O M
N H P J E K P H D E S S L C K W Q B D R S
W C C N K J G I N F L E C T I O N S P M K
C I I X L Q A G W R V A I F D P F G N E M
C A P I T A L I S A T I O N C X M G G I N
W W R H M T K L B D A L J U T D B W R R E
X I N T E R C H A N G E T M L U H I S F J
G C N X Q U E S T I O N M A R K S V K Q D
B X P N O T R G P R K D W R Q W K I Y E C
V X F Y W L O V Q X P D L X P O D T K A V

Clues

  • a punctuation mark indicating a question (8, 5)
  • a punctuation mark used to show that someone is speaking (6, 5)
  • a sentence where the subject of the sentence is the pronoun I or we (5, 6)
  • a series of changes between medieval and modern english affecting the long vowels of the standard language (3, 5, 5, 5)
  • the use of capital letters (14)
  • the way that a word changes when expressing plurals,tense,person (10)
  • when a text does not follow the same patterns for spelling or grammar (13)
  • when language use generally follows a prescribed set of words (17)
  • when one letter is swapped for another, in the spelling of a word (11)
  • where the subject of the sentence is the pronoun he,she or they (5, 6)

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