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Loss Adjectives Grammatical Occured Inflectional Endings Inflected Determiners

Front What grammatical changes occured in ME?
Back Loss of inflectional endings
Loss of inflected determiners
Switch from synthetic to analytic language due to fixed word order
Introduction of French derivational suffixes such as '-ment', '-ous' and '-ery'
Simplified pronoun system
Loss of strong and weak declensions of adjectives
Distinction between adverbs and adjectives with use of '-lic'

Tags: english, middle

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