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Characteristics of Modern English

Modern English has a vocabulary that is approximately 25% Germanic and 75% Romance. It uses an orthography that connects spelling to sound and meaning. New words can be created through analogy by making irregular words conform to more common rules. Blends fall into two groups - compounds that combine free forms like "gentleman" and phrases that combine like "clover leaf". Composition refers to the combination of parts in writing. Affixation is the adding of prefixes and suffixes to change a root word's meaning, and syntax is the grammatical structure of sentences.

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Characteristics of Modern English

Modern English has a vocabulary that is approximately 25% Germanic and 75% Romance. It uses an orthography that connects spelling to sound and meaning. New words can be created through analogy by making irregular words conform to more common rules. Blends fall into two groups - compounds that combine free forms like "gentleman" and phrases that combine like "clover leaf". Composition refers to the combination of parts in writing. Affixation is the adding of prefixes and suffixes to change a root word's meaning, and syntax is the grammatical structure of sentences.

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CHARACTERISTICS OF

MODERN ENGLISH
Characteristics

 Vocabulary.
 Orthography
 Analogical creation of a new word.
 Blends fall into 2 groups
 Increasingly popular.
 Composition.
 Reverse of affixetion.
 Syntax
VOCABULARY

 Vocabulary The vocabulary of Modern English is


approximately a quarter Germanic (Old English, Scandinavian,
Dutch, German) and two-thirds Italic or Romance (especially
Latin, French, Spanish, Italian), with copious and increasing
importations from Greek in science and technology and with
considerable borrowings from more than 300 other languages.
ORTHOGRAPY

 English orthography is the system of


writing conventions used to represent
spoken English in written form that allows
readers to connect spelling to sound to
meaning.
Analogical creation Of a New word.

An analogy can be the linguistic process that


reduces word forms perceived as irregular by
remaking them in the shape of more common
forms that are governed by rules. For example,
the English verb help once had the preterite
holp and the past participle holpen.
BLENDS INTO 2 GROUPS

 Composition, or compounding, is concerned with free forms. The primary


compounds cloverleaf, gentleman, and (less obviously, because of the
spelling) already show the collocation of two free forms. They differ from
word groups or phrases in stress, juncture, or vowel quality or by a
combination of these. Thus, already differs from all ready in stress and
juncture, cloverleaf from clover leaf in stress, and gentleman from gentle
man in vowel quality, stress, and juncture. In describing the structure of
compound words it is necessary to take into account the relation of
components to each other and the relation of the whole compound to its
components.
INCREASINGLY POPULAR

 English dictionary definition of INCREASINGLY along with additional


meanings, example sentences, and different ways to say.
 You can use increasingly to indicate that a situation or quality is becoming
greater in intensity or more common
 How to use increasingly
1. Custom tattooing is increasingly popular with customers, especially those
with multiple tattoos.
2. The one other type of resin that is becoming increasingly popular is
emulsion VOC resin.
COMPOSITION

 The term composition as it refers to writing, can describe writers' decisions


about, processes for designing, and sometimes the final product of, a
document. the combination of parts or elements that make up something. :
a piece of writing especially : a brief essay written as a school assignment. :
a written piece of music and especially one that is very long or complex. And
the act of putting something together, or the combination of elements or
qualities. An example of a composition is a flower arrangement. ... An
example of a composition is how the flowers and vase are arranged in Van
Gogh's painting Sunflowers.
REVERSE OF AFFIXETION

 As you now know, an affix is a word that can be added


to a root word or base word to add a new meaning. ...
For example, in the word conforming, con- is the prefix
and -ing is the suffix, while "form" is the root.
SYNTAX

 Syntax is the grammatical structure of sentences. The format in


which words and phrases are arranged to create sentences is
called syntax.

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