Question

What are the four partially overlapping phases into which the spread of English can be divided?

Accepted Answer

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it spread via British colonialism.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it spread via the Industrial Revolution.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, through American economic and political superiority.In the second half of the twentieth century, through American techonological development.

Front	What are the four partially overlapping phases into which the spread of English can be divided?
Back	In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it spread via British colonialism. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it spread via the Industrial Revolution. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, through American economic and political superiority. In the second half of the twentieth century, through American techonological development.

Spread Centuries Eighteenth Nineteenth Twentieth American Partially Overlapping