Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Modern English
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Syntax=== *disuse of the [[TβV distinction]] ([[thou]], [[Ye (pronoun)|ye]]). Contemporary Modern English usually retains only the formal second-person personal pronoun, "[[you]]" (ye), used in both formal and informal contexts. *use of auxiliary verbs becomes mandatory in [[interrogative]] sentences. *[[Fewer vs. less|"less", rather than "fewer"]], is used for [[countable noun]]s.<ref name="CCE"/> *For [[Comparison (grammar)#English|English comparisons]], syntactic comparison (''more'') is preferred to analytic comparison (''-er'').<ref name="CCE"/> * Usage of the [[Saxon genitive]] ('s) has extended beyond human referents.<ref name="CCE"/>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)