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6. How has capitalisation changed from Early Modern English to now?

  • no longer used for all nouns considered important
  • no change at all
  • no longer used for every single word
  • no longer used after every piece of punctuation

7. How has grammar been standardised?

  • printing, prescriptivism, grammar books
  • through dictionaries
  • it hasn't
  • spell checkers, idioms, handwriting styles

8. What was society like in the 18th century?

  • equality between all classes and races
  • growing informality
  • class-based and hierarchical
  • social levelling

9. When was Early Modern English?

  • 18th century-present
  • 15th-17th century
  • 5th-11th century
  • 14th-19th century

10. What was Howard Giles' theory about?

  • convergence and divergence
  • omission and assimilation
  • eye dialect
  • incorrectness view, ugliness view and impreciseness view

11. How do we adapt existing words?

  • archaism
  • neologisms
  • morphology
  • compound

12. When did William Caxton invent the printing press?

  • 1476
  • 1423
  • 1503
  • 1562

13. What is prescriptivism?

  • an attitude to language that gives spoken English the same status as written forms
  • an attitude to language that makes judgements about what is right and wrong
  • an attitude to language that is much more recent
  • an attitude to language that sees English as improving its standard

14. The name of a word that loses the strength of its original meaning?

  • acronym
  • back formation
  • weakening
  • pejoration

15. An attitude to language that doesn't make value judgements is...?

  • standardisation
  • descriptivism
  • prescriptivism
  • articulation

16. What is amelioration?

  • taking on a more positive meaning
  • describing something unpleasant in a better way
  • taking on a more negative meaning
  • an old word that is no longer in general use

17. What effect has the media had on language?

  • a more casual, colloquial and speech-like register
  • a more formal register
  • no effect at all
  • a register that is exactly like written language